Meaning

• A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

• Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.

• The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

• An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

  "The party was boring. It was full of randoms."

• The direction of a rake-vein.

Meaning

• Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.

  "The flip of a fair coin is purely random."

• Of or relating to probability distribution.

  "A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased."

• Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.

• (somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.

  "A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference."

• (somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.

  "That was a completely random comment."

• Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.

  "You're so random!"