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Definitions of arbitrary in various dictionaries:
adj - based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice; arbitrary division of the group into halves.
Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference: The diet imposes overall calorie limits, but daily menus are arbitrary.
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| From the Latin for "uncertain", it refers to a judgment based on one's whim rather than on a rule |
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| based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice |
| based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. |
| (of power or a ruling body) unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority. |
| Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. |
| (of a constant or other quantity) of unspecified value. |
| based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason: |
| using unlimited personal power without considering other people's wishes: |
| based on a desire or idea or chance rather than reason: |
| Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice. |
| Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference: The diet imposes overall calorie limits, but daily menus are arbitrary. |
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| Arbitrariness is the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle".Arbitrary decisions are not necessarily the same as random decisions. For example, during the 1973 oil crisis, Americans were allowed to purchase gasoline only on odd-numbered days if their license plate was odd, and on even-numbered days if their license plate was even. The system was well-defined and not random in its restrictions; however, since license plate numbers are completely unrelated to a person's fitness to purchase gasoline, it was still an arbitrary division of people. Similarly, schoolchildren are often organized by their surname in alphabetical order, a non-random yet still arbitrary method, at least in cases where surnames are irrelevant. |
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