arbitrariness

arbitrary | American Dictionary

arbitrary
adjective
us/ˈɑr·bɪˌtrer·i/
based on a desire or idea or chance rather than reason:
Her outfit was an arbitrary choice but was just perfect.

arbitrarily

adverbus/ˌɑr·bəˈtreər·ə·li/
We didn’t think much about it, just arbitrarily decided to go to Italy.

arbitrariness

noun[ U ]us/ˌɑr·bəˈtreər·i·nəs/
disapproving
The arbitrariness of human nature infuriates me.

Examples of arbitrary

arbitrary
That percentages of air being used add up to one unit of air is purely arbitrary.
Their formulation is vague and the arbitrary three-dimensional plots intended as abstract representations of the global array are not particularly informative.
In fact, it is interesting to note that any closed region with arbitrary shape reduces to a point as the region reduces to zero.
The surfaces generated by subdivision schemes on such nets are no longer restricted to bivariate functions, and they can represent surfaces of arbitrary topology.
The 'could' in the first sentence is worth noting but, passing quickly over this point, the 10 per cent figure seems arbitrary, at best.
The concept of visible tangent links can be extended to arbitrary shaped obstacles.
This makes it possible to define tries and operations on tries generically for arbitrary datatypes.
The dimensional analysis is per formed for an arbitrary velocity, leading to the conclusion that the dependence on the parameters is identical for different velocities.
In the case of an axially symmetric vortex, the newly formed dipoles diverge in arbitrary directions, whereas here it is predetermined by the initial configuration.
Analogously to the situation for resolvespecs, there is a tension between allowing arbitrary computation in defining the relations and supporting compile-time analysis.
The extension to arbitrary datatypes is then uniquely defined.
Deletion is defined to remove an arbitrary number of elements.
There is a thrill in recognizing new anagrams, arbitrary though they may be, that resembles the thrill of discovering natural phenomena.
First, if there is no natural zero point that separates positive from negative value, then any particular zero point is arbitrary.
The main weakness of the text is its somewhat arbitrary selectivity.
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