Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make random in arrangement, especially in order to control the variables in an experiment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
randomise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange in random order
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Examples
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· Use the Group Allocator to allocate ( "randomize") subjects to treatment groups before you start the experiment.
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With "randomize" enabled reloadevery will randomly reload the page somewhere between 50% earlier or 50% later.
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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.
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With "randomize" enabled reloadevery will randomly reload the page somewhere between 50% earlier or 50% later.
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"randomize" it will reload somewhere between 5 and 15 seconds and it'll change with every reload.
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"randomize" it will reload somewhere between 5 and 15 seconds and it'll change with every reload.
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They would randomize the frequencies of their phaser blasts, but Vaughn understood that victory would likely require more radical measures.
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They would randomize the frequencies of their phaser blasts, but Vaughn understood that victory would likely require more radical measures.
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They would randomize the frequencies of their phaser blasts, but Vaughn understood that victory would likely require more radical measures.
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They would randomize the frequencies of their phaser blasts, but Vaughn understood that victory would likely require more radical measures.
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