Randomized

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Altered or arranged so that outcomes or the order are determined by chance rather than pattern or sequence
2. Organized in a way where elements or events have no predictable arrangement and occur unpredictably
3. Adjusted or sorted according to a process that removes deliberate order to ensure unpredictability

Etymology: "Randomized" is the past tense and past participle of "randomize," which is formed from "random" plus the suffix "-ize." The base word "random" came into English in the 1500s from Anglo-Norman and Old French "randon," meaning force, speed or a rushing movement, which in turn derives from "randir," to run or gallop, related to the Frankish root behind the English "run." So the original sense was closer to headlong rush than to chance, and "random" only drifted toward "without pattern" over the following centuries. The suffix "-ize" traces back to Ancient Greek "-izein," used to form verbs meaning "to make or treat in a certain way," which passed through Late Latin "-izare" and Old French into English. Adding it to "random" produced a verb meaning to make something random or to arrange it without a fixed pattern. "Randomize" is a modern formation, first recorded in the 20th century, and it is the usual term in statistics and computing for deliberately removing order from a set of items.

Synonyms: arranged, ordered, shuffled, mixed

Antonyms: organized, systematic, structured