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[ UK /ɹˈændəmnəs/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈændəmnəs/ ]
NOUN
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(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity - the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
How To Use randomness In A Sentence
- Complexity is between determination and randomness.
- I still prefer the uncertainty and randomness of crossword clues.
- The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.
- The degree of flocculation, and hence randomness of particle orientations on sedimentation, generally increases with the concentration and valency of the cations in the solution.
- The reason for this difference is as follows: in von Mises 'theory the law of large numbers follows from Poisson's law plus randomness, and in the classical theory it follows from Laplace's definition plus the multi plication law. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- When everything that's going on on-screen is so chaotic and crazy, it doesn't help when it's cut together with such lunatic randomness.
- Much of the emphasis in recent cryptological research has been on ways to get by with less randomness, but a recent proposal takes a step in the other direction.
- Risk, he argued, was a randomness - as in a game of roulette - whose probability could be determined.
- The term silent evidence comes from a book I am currently enjoying, entitled "Fooled by Randomness" by a former securities trader named Nassim Taleb. which I have mentioned before. Archive 2008-01-01
- The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness.
