Definition: 1. Not seeming to be based on a reason, system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair. 2. Using power without restriction and without considering other people. 3. Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice.
Use 'arbitrary' in a sentence:
1. A good judge does not make arbitrary decisions.
2. CMS is used to sign or encrypt arbitrary messages.
3. The rules of the game an arbitrary imposition of difficulty.
4. Ambitious girls do what they want when they want, because they don't have time for arbitrary dating rules.
5. This system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English, which is quite arbitrary.
6. Data instances are arbitrary blocks of XML.
7. This is AI's so-called "control problem": the risk that smart machines will single-mindedly pursue arbitrary goals even when they are undesirable.
8. He makes unpredictable, arbitrary decisions.
9. I'd been raised to judge people based on arbitrary measurements, like a person's race or religion.
10. artificial constraints lead to arbitrary distinctions and a skewed worldview.
11. The judges rule the city's laws are unconstitutionally vague and encourages quote arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement against the poor.
12. The theoretical basis is the Arbitrary Principle and the Language Value Theory from Saussure.
13. Exactly where these points are chosen is arbitrary.
14. The zero of it wasn't arbitrary.
15. How to estimate the variation in arbitrary directions.
16. I don't know what vernon is thinking . He always acts in an arbitrary and reckless manner.
17. The court became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments.
18. protect foreign investors from arbitrary treatment ( by requiring fair compensation for any expropriation or nationalization of assets);
19. An arbitrary name is needed for the bridge object.
20. This is unfair, and its arbitrary.
21. This is an arbitrary decision.
22. The old man became increasingly prejudiced, arbitrary, and senile.
23. You can make an arbitrary choice.
24. People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often arbitrary rather than based on fixed criteria.
25. I don't like to advise arbitrary methods, but what else is to be done?
26. At these times north and south become arbitrary terms.
27. The choice of players for the team seemed completely arbitrary.
28. In other words, this was an arbitrary choice.
29. She was allergic to the arbitrary and the exorbitant.
30. The lists just can't be arbitrary.
31. For these tools, the question might be in two parts: Given an arbitrary receipt, can you scan it sufficiently well to extract data?
32. Choose to be arbitrary when possible.
33. If we had thought that the rules of the sports we care about are merely arbitrary,
34. Iterators iterate through the container in an arbitrary order, that can change as elements are inserted.
35. This structure may have an arbitrary number of bundles.
36. Human beliefs about reality are either arbitrary or accidental.
37. Your appointment may not be entirely arbitrary.
38. It is a striking reminder of just how arbitrary our ideas of "value"-and luxury-really are.
39. The generalization of the quadrant and octant to arbitrary number of dimensions is the orthant.
40. Arbitrary and differential are two correlative qualities.
41. It's not so arbitrary anymore.
42. Q. You've questioned the arbitrary divide between genre fiction and literary fiction in the past.
43. Knowing as much relevant information as possible can help us avoid making arbitrary decisions.
44. You spent your school years solving arbitrary problems imposed by boring authority figures.
45. The order of those parameters is arbitrary.
46. At the same time, the state should regulate dairy enterprises arbitrary speculation of milk products.
47. And yet, less than one week from now, Congress is poised to allow a series of arbitrary, automatic budget cuts that will do the exact opposite.
48. the arbitrary powers of officials.
49. Well, that is arbitrary.
50. His conduct appears to have been arbitrary and harsh.
51. You cannot submit forms to an arbitrary server.
52. It's completely arbitrary to just pick an age like that, and say that is when a kid is mature.
53. Finally, the security was fired for his arbitrary judgment.
54. This is a transition that's going to take place, and it's not an arbitrary date.
55. The litmus test of a liberal regime must surely be the freedom of the individual from arbitrary arrest and punishment.
56. But you must sense its arbitrary aspect you are the lucky few.
57. Luck, after all, is arbitrary.
58. Arbitrary arrests and detention without trial were common.
59. This paper also discussed a general algorithm of tracking the rays in arbitrary cavities.
60. Arbitrary commands can be run.
61. The signs are both arbitrary and differential.
62. For those outside this inner circle decisions can seem arbitrary and confusing.
63. If a product's shape or style or features are arbitrary and nonfunctional.
64. Messages can also have arbitrary arguments.
65. It's not an arbitrary data cache.
66. instead of imagining it as arbitrary hurdles that you have to jump over,
67. Otherwise, enforcing the ban will be arbitrary.
68. A rule of law is soon to replace arbitrary by ad hoc military and party committees.
69. So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.
70. This intuition is not arbitrary or irrational, but is based on years of painstaking practice and hands-on experience that build skills.
71. Automatic identifying the arbitrary format character string make up of 16 numbers in the text file.
72. Methods also support accessing ( but not setting ) the arbitrary function attributes on the underlying function object.
