arbitrary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.

   “Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary.”

2. sıfat Determined by impulse rather than reason; often connoting heavy-handedness.

   “1937/1938, Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born The Russian trials were Stalin's purges, with which he attempted to consolidate his power. Like most people in the West, I believed these show trials to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator.”

3. sıfat Any, out of all that are possible.

   “The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.”

4. sıfat Determined by independent arbiter.
5. sıfat Not representative or symbolic; not iconic.
6. isim Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.

   “And in this long chain of consistence, a chain stretching from the long dead to the far unborn, the notion of the arbitrary could only survive as the notion of a pre-established arbitrary.”