"nonrandom" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From non- + random.",
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          "text": "The apparent accident was a nonrandom event: someone carefully arranged it to happen when and where it did.",
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        {
          "ref": "1956, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 300, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 77:",
          "text": "The evidence presented indicates that the regional variations in uranium content in rhyolitic and dacitic rocks are nonrandom in nature.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Agricultural Economics Research, Volumes 10-12, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, page 45:",
          "text": "As an example of the method, table 1 summarizes the computations used in estimating the variance of the random component of early fall lettuce yields in California for the years 1918–57. The question is: Beginning with which difference is it reasonably certain that the nonrandom element has been eliminated, leaving an estimate of the random variance?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, United States Congress, Congressional Record, Washington, Congress, page 11565:",
          "text": "Confidence intervals can be used to isolate areas of discrepancies if bias exist as being a result of either a 'nonrandom selection technique or a non-representative selection list.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Ernst Mayr, This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 189:",
          "text": "There is no need to consider those individuals who survive the process of nonrandom elimination to be the products fo a goal-directed process.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2000, United States Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, North American Fauna, Washington, Fish and Wildlife Service, Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Print Office, page 22:",
          "text": "However, it should be noted that theoretically, the apparent nonrandom distance of the dispersal has evolved because of its advantage to the species.",
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        "Not random; caused or manipulated; arranged."
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          "word": "non-random"
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        "not-comparable"
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  "etymology_text": "From non- + random.",
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          "text": "The apparent accident was a nonrandom event: someone carefully arranged it to happen when and where it did.",
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          "ref": "1956, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 300, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 77:",
          "text": "The evidence presented indicates that the regional variations in uranium content in rhyolitic and dacitic rocks are nonrandom in nature.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Agricultural Economics Research, Volumes 10-12, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, page 45:",
          "text": "As an example of the method, table 1 summarizes the computations used in estimating the variance of the random component of early fall lettuce yields in California for the years 1918–57. The question is: Beginning with which difference is it reasonably certain that the nonrandom element has been eliminated, leaving an estimate of the random variance?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, United States Congress, Congressional Record, Washington, Congress, page 11565:",
          "text": "Confidence intervals can be used to isolate areas of discrepancies if bias exist as being a result of either a 'nonrandom selection technique or a non-representative selection list.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1998, Ernst Mayr, This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 189:",
          "text": "There is no need to consider those individuals who survive the process of nonrandom elimination to be the products fo a goal-directed process.",
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          "ref": "2000, United States Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, North American Fauna, Washington, Fish and Wildlife Service, Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Print Office, page 22:",
          "text": "However, it should be noted that theoretically, the apparent nonrandom distance of the dispersal has evolved because of its advantage to the species.",
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