Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make random in arrangement, especially in order to control the variables in an experiment.
Wiktionary
- v. alternative spelling of randomise.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to arrange or rearrange so that there is no predetermined order; to select by a random process; to assign (members of a group) into subgroups by a random process.
WordNet 3.0
- v. arrange in random order
Examples
“· Use the Group Allocator to allocate ( "randomize") subjects to treatment groups before you start the experiment.”
“With "randomize" enabled reloadevery will randomly reload the page somewhere between 50% earlier or 50% later.”
“While the voter's identity is not stored with the votes, each vote is given a serial number in order to "randomize" the votes after they are uploaded to the back-end tabulating authority.”
“randomize" it will reload somewhere between 5 and 15 seconds and it'll change with every reload.”
“They would randomize the frequencies of their phaser blasts, but Vaughn understood that victory would likely require more radical measures.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“He came up with a clever way to randomize his study, at least somewhat, without doing anything unethical.”
“The computer program would randomize patterns of exposed surfaces and then choose the most efficient one to start the next generation — how Darwinian.”
Solar Origami: MIT Working on Super Efficient Folded Solar Panels | Inhabitat
“Arnold, to cheat this way, you'd have to track opponent plays, detect patterns, and sufficiently randomize or obfuscate your own play so patterns don't emerge.”
Singularity Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The program can randomize the small groups, or the professor can make the small groups.”
“Let me fix anything I want and then randomize anything I want.”
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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de-verb this word
Nouns made into unnatural verbs, nouns used as verbs, verbs that used to be intransitive
systematize, alphabeticalize, problematize, impact, monetize, incentivize, actualize, randomize, conceptualize, exit, access, resource and 31 more...
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