random

desconocido

En lenguaje informal, persona que no conoces o a la que no das importancia.

En inglés sencillo: A person you do not know or consider important.

• Some random sent me a message.
• The party was full of randoms.
• Why did you give our address to a total random?

Sinónimos: stranger, nobody

Expresiones frecuentes: some random, a total random, random from somewhere

aleatorio, arbitrario

Elegido u organizado sin un plan, propósito o patrón claro.

En inglés sencillo: Chosen or arranged without a clear plan, purpose, or pattern.

• The names are in random order.
• She picked a random book from the shelf.
• He wrote down random words as they came to him.

Sinónimos: arbitrary, haphazard

Antónimos: systematic

Expresiones frecuentes: random order, random choice, random words

fortuito, aleatorio

Que ocurre sin una razón evidente ni un patrón previsible.

En inglés sencillo: Happening without an obvious reason or predictable pattern.

• We heard random noises upstairs.
• The city has suffered several random attacks.
• A random encounter changed her plans for the day.

Sinónimos: haphazard, unpredictable

Antónimos: predictable

Expresiones frecuentes: random act, random attack, random event

aleatorio

Elegido al azar, de modo que todas las opciones tengan la misma probabilidad de salir.

En inglés sencillo: Chosen by chance, with every possible choice equally likely.

• We chose a random sample of students.
• A random draw decided who went first.
• The computer makes a random selection from all eligible names.

Antónimos: nonrandom

Expresiones frecuentes: random sample, random selection, random draw

aleatorio, estocástico

Cuyo resultado no es seguro, pero puede describirse mediante probabilidades matemáticas.

En inglés sencillo: Having an uncertain result that can be described using mathematical chances.

• The model includes a random variable.
• We studied random processes in our statistics class.
• Each experiment produces a random outcome with a known probability.

Sinónimos: stochastic

Antónimos: deterministic

Expresiones frecuentes: random variable, random process, random outcome