randomizeverb [ T ]
UK usually randomise uk/ˈræn.də.maɪz/us/ˈræn.də.maɪz/to make something random (= so that it happens or is chosen by chance), especially as a way of making a test fairer or more accurate:
Some studies are easier to randomize than others.
Scrambling is a technique used to randomize a data stream.
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Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- lottery
- luck into sth
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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