random variable
noun
: a variable that is itself a function of the result of a statistical experiment in which each outcome has a definite probability of occurrence
called also variate
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This puzzling curve seemed to be the complex cousin of the familiar bell curve, or Gaussian distribution, which represents the natural variation of independent random variables like the heights of students in a classroom or their test scores. 
Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2014 There are too many random variables at play -- including the crazy crowd noise -- to make this a consistently formful race. Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2014 There are too many random variables at play -- including the crazy crowd noise -- to make this a consistently formful race. Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018 Word History
First Known Use
1914, in the meaning defined above
- democratisatia
- democratisation
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