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nonrandomly

nonrandomly

5.5
In a planned way rather than by chance
  • adverb
  • /nɒnˈrændəmli/
translation icon : no aleatoriamente
  • The researchers nonrandomly assigned participants to different groups based on their backgrounds.
  • nonrandomly selected

Examples

  • No significant differences were found between randomly and nonrandomly selected participants.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Epidemiologists have long known that disease occurs nonrandomly in space (Ostfeld et al. 2005, 2008; McCallum 2008).

    Academic text (2010)
  • The team used face-to-face interviews of both randomly and nonrandomly selected samples of Hispanics/Latinos attending the festival.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The mouse X chromosome is nonrandomly maternally inactivated in mammary epithelial cells 23.

    Blog text (26)
  • Of those, 301 (56 percent) were randomly selected, and 234 (43.7 percent) were nonrandomly selected.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The firm nonrandomly recruits large numbers of volunteer respondents, from which it uses proximity matching to the American Community Survey (in this case, the 2008 survey) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to construct a representative sample of adults in the United States.

    Academic text (2014)
  • He has discovered that a number of very unique pulsars are nonrandomly distributed in the sky and mark key Galactic locations that have particular significance from an ETI communication standpoint.

    Blog text (32)
  • In the experiment, data was collected nonrandomly to ensure that specific trends could be identified.

  • The patterns in the population's behavior were nonrandomly observed, revealing insights into their preferences.

Synonyms

by design
vsnonrandomly
26 4.0

On purpose as part of a plan

can be due to an intended plan or to an observed pattern
deterministically
vsnonrandomly
  • Specialized
1 7.8

In a way that always gives the same result from the same starting conditions

is set by a specific plan or pattern rather than only by past causes
uncoincidentally
vsnonrandomly
1 8.2

In a way that is not by chance but because something caused it

can mean arranged according to a pattern or plan rather than just caused

Antonyms

126 2.4

In a way that has no clear plan or order

How Randomly

haphazardly
9 6.1
randomly
126 2.4
nonrandomly
5.5

Surface Forms

nonrandomly positive
nonrandomlier comparative
nonrandomliest superlative

Morphology

nonrandomly = nonrandom (transparent) = non + random + ly

The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'nonrandom', which itself is the negative 'non-' + 'random'.

Etymology

Nonrandomly breaks into non- ('not'), random ('without pattern' or 'by chance'), and -ly (makes a word an adverb, like in quickly). So, nonrandomly means doing something 'not by chance' — in a planned or patterned way.