3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aleatory
adjective: dependent on chance; "the aleatory element in life"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aleatory \A"le*a*to*ry\, adjective [L. aleatorius, fr. alea chance,
die.] (Law)
Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory
contract. --Bouvier.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "aleatory":
Nachtmusik, absolute music, accidental, adaptation, adventitious,
adventurous, air varie, aleatoric, aleatory music, amorphous,
arrangement, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, casual, causeless,
chamber music, chamber orchestra, chance, chancy, chaotic,
circumstantial, composition, conditional, confused, contingent,
descant, destinal, dicey, disordered, electronic music, etude,
exercise, fatal, fatidic, fluky, foggy, fortuitous, full of risk,
fuzzy, general, harmonization, hazardous, hazy, hit-or-miss, iffy,
ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incidental,
incidental music, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite,
indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inessential, inexact,
instrumental music, invention, lax, loose, nocturne, nonessential,
nonspecific, obscure, occasional, opus, orchestration, orderless,
piece, production, program music, provisional, random, ricercar,
riskful, risky, score, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, sonata,
sonatina, speculative, stochastic, string orchestra,
string quartet, study, sweeping, theme and variations, trio,
uncaused, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined,
unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for,
unplain, unpredictable, unspecified, vague, variation, veiled,
venturesome, venturous, wildcat, work
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