How to pronounce“arbitrary”in English
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arbitrary. Um you probably are familiar with those things for example in climate change where pollution might make the
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Definitions of “arbitrary”
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.”
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.”
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.”