Meaning of aleatory in English:
aleatory
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(also aleatoric)
1Depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.
‘Fortunately, some cosmologists have lately begun to consider models in which the ‘initial conditions’ are aleatoric and hence far from simple.’- ‘Thus the rigorous intellectualism of serialism and the freedom of aleatoric processes are not paradoxical, but stem from the same mindset.’
- ‘It is presumed that the very creation of life spawned from the song of its constant aleatoric mutations.’
- ‘However, such aleatoric work is not necessarily the only way forward.’
- ‘It therefore refers to what is aleatory, temporal and in course of development.’
fortuitous, chance, occurring by accident, occurring by chance, adventitious, fluky, coincidental, casual, serendipitous, random, aleatory- 1.1Relating to or denoting music or other forms of art involving elements of random choice (sometimes using statistical or computer techniques) during their composition, production, or performance.‘aleatory music’
- ‘a photograph can capture the aleatory chaos of modern urban life’
- ‘In his later works he experimented with electronic music, while aleatory techniques form the basis of two major orchestral scores from 1967.’
- ‘They were intrigued and learned something new about Mozart and aleatory music.’
- ‘All of these elements are combined into seemingly aleatory compositions that, like fractals, operate on several scales at once.’
- ‘After several unsatisfactory attempts, this has now become an aleatory section.’
- ‘So aleatoric poetry could be described with historical exactitude as a rigmarole.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Late 17th century from Latin aleatorius, from aleator ‘dice player’, from alea ‘die’, + -y.
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