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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
Conrad Burns

Meaning of "arbitrarily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ARBITRARILY

arbitrarily  [ˌɑːbɪˈtreərɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARBITRARILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Arbitrarily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ARBITRARILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Arbitrariness

Arbitrariness is a term given to choices and actions subject to individual will, judgment or preference, based solely upon an individual's opinion or discretion. 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.

Definition of arbitrarily in the English dictionary

The definition of arbitrarily in the dictionary is for no good reason; at whim.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ARBITRARILY


airily
ˈɛərɪlɪ
auditorily
ˈɔːdɪtərɪlɪ
blearily
ˈblɪərɪlɪ
cheerily
ˈtʃɪərɪlɪ
contrarily
kənˈtrɛərɪlɪ
cursorily
ˈkɜːsərɪlɪ
eerily
ˈɪərɪlɪ
evolutionarily
ˌiːvəˈluːʃənərɪlɪ
exemplarily
ɪɡˈzɛmplərɪlɪ
legendarily
ˈlɛdʒəndərɪlɪ
mandatorily
ˈmændətərɪlɪ
necessarily
ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ
pecuniarily
pɪˈkjuːnjərɪlɪ
preliminarily
prɪˈlɪmɪnərɪlɪ
scarily
ˈskɛərɪlɪ
secondarily
ˈsekəndərɪlɪ
summarily
ˈsʌmərɪlɪ
voluntarily
ˈvɒləntərɪlɪ
warily
ˈwɛərɪlɪ
wearily
ˈwɪərɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARBITRARILY

arbiter
arbitrable
arbitrage
arbitrager
arbitrageur
arbitral
arbitrament
arbitrariness
arbitrary
arbitrate
arbitration
arbitration clause
arbitration service
arbitration tribunal
arbitrational
arbitrative
arbitrator
arbitrement
arbitress
arbitrium

WORDS THAT END LIKE ARBITRARILY

complementarily
contemporarily
customarily
drearily
extraordinarily
fragmentarily
hereditarily
involuntarily
literarily
mercenarily
militarily
momentarily
monetarily
ordinarily
plenarily
primarily
satisfactorily
stationarily
temporarily
unitarily
unnecessarily

Synonyms and antonyms of arbitrarily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «arbitrarily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ARBITRARILY

Find out the translation of arbitrarily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of arbitrarily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «arbitrarily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

随意
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arbitrariamente
570 millions of speakers

English

arbitrarily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मनमाने ढंग से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعسفا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

произвольно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arbitrariamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইচ্ছামত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arbitrairement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sewenang-wenangnya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

willkürlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

任意に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

임의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Arbitrarily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tùy tiện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன்னிச்சையாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वैरपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

keyfi olarak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arbitrariamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

arbitralnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

довільно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arbitrar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυθαίρετα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

arbitrêr
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

godtyckligt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vilkårlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of arbitrarily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARBITRARILY»

The term «arbitrarily» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.735 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ARBITRARILY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about arbitrarily

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8 QUOTES WITH «ARBITRARILY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word arbitrarily.
1
Conrad Burns
Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
2
Richard Dawkins
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
3
Murray Gell-Mann
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
4
Ken Ham
Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.
5
Friedrich August von Hayek
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
6
Leon Krier
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.
7
Gina McCarthy
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.
8
Mary Wollstonecraft
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARBITRARILY»

Discover the use of arbitrarily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to arbitrarily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fingerprinting methods based on arbitrarily primed PCR
Before the polymerase chain resction (PCR) was established,DNA fingerprinting technology had relied for years on restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis,a very efficient technique but quite laborious and not suitable for ...
Maria R. Micheli, Rodolfo Bova, 1997
2
Hertzian Dipoles and Microstrip Circuits on Arbitrarily ...
This dissertation presents radiation field analyses of Hertzian dipoles positioned above, in, and on layered isotropic-biaxially anisotropic media as well as spectral-domain full-wave analyses of microstrip transmission lines and microstrip ...
Gregory Francis Pettis, 2008
3
Transmission Through an Arbitrarily Shaped Aperture in a ...
The analysis of chiral materials has been an important subject in computational electromagnetics.
Sehabeddin Taha Imeci, Syracuse University. Graduate School, 2007
4
Electromagnetic Scattering from an Arbitrarily Shaped Three ...
Great flexibility of the method is exhibited through these examples.
Chong Mei, Syracuse University. Graduate School, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, 2007
5
Modal Analysis of Arbitrarily Damped Three-dimensional ...
Modal analysis is a powerful approach that is used to analyze the responses of a structure under dynamic loadings.
Yi-Lun Chu, 2008
6
Electromagnetic Scattering Analysis of Arbitrarily Shaped ...
A hybrid method that combines the finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM) is developed to analyze electromagnetic scattering from arbitrarily shaped material cylinders.
M. D. Deshpande, 1996
7
Increasing the margin of stability of arbitrarily finite ...
Major themes of research performed under the grant include: (1) increasing the margin of stability of arbitrarily finite modes of damped wave equations.
Irena Lasiecka, Roberto Triggiani, 1988
8
Hydrodynamics, Rheology and Conduction in Suspensions of ...
Complete characterization of the geometry of an arbitrarily shaped fiber would require an extremely large number of parameters, even when the fiber shape is idealized as a space curve. The complexity only increases when considering ...
Emilio J. Tozzi, 2008
9
Theoretical pressure distributions over arbitrarily shaped ...
Theoretical solution for pressure distribution over arbitrarily shaped periodic waves using Fourier series.
K. R. Czarnecki, Mary W. Jackson, 1970
10
Fixed-Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and ...
The following example shows that, in general, arbitrarily slow convergence is not the same as almost arbitrarily slow convergence. Example 11.20 (Almost arbitrarily slow convergence does not imply arbitrarily slow convergence) ([20, Example ...
Heinz H. Bauschke, Regina S. Burachik, Patrick L. Combettes, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARBITRARILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term arbitrarily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Presbyterian Church considers withdrawing from Marriage Act if gay …
"It's not that classical Christianity just arbitrarily picks what continues to apply and what doesn't, there is a pattern that you can see in the Bible," ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
Editorial: US should follow Illinois, abolish death penalty
... it is handed down arbitrarily; it fails as a deterrent to crime, and the years of solitary confinement on death row are excessively harsh. «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
3
Cold Spring's water search could have statewide effect due to …
"The method that they have so far, where they just arbitrarily pick a number, really put businesses and cities and people who have water ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Weird Al dazzles, recognizes my hot dog costume at Mystic
By the unexpected grace of whatever cosmic powers were arbitrarily looking out for me that night, I obtained backstage access to a very small ... «City Pages, Jul 15»
5
Causing and Condoning Sinful Behavior: Part III
... is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. «Patriot Post, Jul 15»
6
Commentary: Is special education racist?
If well-intentioned but misguided advocates succeed in arbitrarily limiting placement in special education based on racial demographics, even ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
7
Varexit – Greeks Sacrifice Euro Antagonist In Bid To Secure Deal
... happening is more than concerning. Suppose a crisis envelopes Britain's banks, will the FSCS arbitrarily drop the rate again, to say £50,000. «Gold Seek, Jul 15»
8
Why Netanyahu can't just wish Palestine away: Analysis of a failed …
Flying checkpoints shift around arbitrarily; the separation wall cuts people off, and settlement activity is designed with separation in mind. «+972 Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Foo Fighters Celebrate 20th Anniversary at All-Star Washington DC …
July 4th was not chosen arbitrarily as the date of the band's anniversary gig – it was the day that the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut album hit ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
10
Have You Seen This Musical? Why Shows Like Houdini and King …
... other artists they've been arbitrarily joined to, or predict (self-fulfillingly) that their efforts may never pay off in the form of a full-fledged musical. «TheaterMania.com, Jul 15»

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