Crossword clues for aleatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aleatory \A"le*a*to*ry\, a. [L. aleatorius, fr. alea chance,
die.] (Law)
Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory
contract.
--Bouvier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of uncertain outcome," literally "depending on the throw of a die," 1690s, from Latin aleatorius "pertaining to a gamester," from aleator "a dice player," from alea "a game with dice; chance, hazard, risk; a die, the dice;" perhaps literally "a joint-bone, a pivot-bone," and related to axis.
Wiktionary
a. Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance
WordNet
adj. dependent on chance; "the aleatory element in life"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "aleatory".
Her brother Tam, who loved music, anything from Swan Lake -- he had given the earrings to Odette -- to aleatory concertos.
Whereas the mystique of military honor makes almost all punishments aleatory, save the two great sanctions, death and dismissal, both tantamount to dishonor.
Reflect upon the continual, wearisome pregnancies, the price of a momentary and I may say aleatory pleasure.
In these conditions a general theory of the state could not but be aleatory and conceived only in the most abstract terms.
Morgaine secured from Aleatory House was for a moderate seventy-five-thousand-dollar advance.
Presumably for Sartre, if Pablo had been a communist, he might have been sustained by his sense of group-membership, whereas, as an Anarchist, he acts individualistically, in aleatory fashion.
Seemed intuitively to sense that it was a matter not of reduction at all, but perversely of expansion, the aleatory flutter of uncontrolled, metastatic growth each well-shot ball admitting of n possible responses, n2 possible responses to those responses, and on into what Incandenza would articulate to anyone who shared both his backgrounds as a Cantorian35 continuum of infinities of possible move and response, Cantorian and beautiful because wfoliating, contained, this diagnate infinity of infinities of choice and execution, mathematically uncontrolled but humanly contained, bounded by the talent and imagination of self and opponent, bent in on itself by the containing boundaries of skill and imagination that brought one player finally down, that kept both from winning, that made it, finally, a game, these boundaries of self.