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aleatory

ˈeɪliəˌtɔri
WordNet
  1. (adj) aleatory
    dependent on chance "the aleatory element in life"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Aleatory
    (Law) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. aleatory
    Literally, depending upon the throw of a die; hence, depending on a contingent event.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Aleatory
    ā′lē-a-tō-ri depending on the throw of the dice: dependent on certain contingencies.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. aleatorius, fr. alea, chance, die

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. āleātōrius, ālea, a die.

Usage in scientific papers

All aleatory phenomena in nature can be analyzed as we have done with the dice. E.g. the water in the sea is in an equilibrium state.
The cosmological origin of time-asymmetry

Sulla prosequibilit´a di processi aleatori scambiabili.
Estimating Random Variables from Random Sparse Observations

Encryption test of pseudo-aleatory messages embedded on chaotic laser signals: An information theory approach.
Quantifiers for randomness of chaotic pseudo random number generators

Levy, Theorie de l’Addition des Variables Aleatories (GauthierVilliers, Paris, 1937).
A Model for Ordinary Levy Motion

Usage in literature

Danger, enterprise, hope, the novel, the aleatory, are dearer to man than regular meals. "Lay Morals and Other Papers" by Robert Louis Stevenson

This was the aleatory element in life, the element of risk and loss, good or bad fortune. "Folkways" by William Graham Sumner

If I may be permitted the aleatory image, you bet they did. "What I Saw in America" by G. K. Chesterton

Danger, enterprise, hope, the novel, the aleatory, are dearer to man than regular meals. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25)" by Robert Louis Stevenson

At best the actor's is an aleatory profession and, as in all games of chance, the losses score highest. "My Actor-Husband" by Anonymous