(US) Alternative form of nightstick

plural of random number generator

plural of pseudorandom number generator

A device or algorithm that generates numbers at random or apparently at random. In many cases they actually select successive numbers deterministically and are more technically termed pseudorandom number generator.

A device or algorithm that deterministically produces a succession of values that appear in an unpredictable sequence or apparently random order.

(archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces.

The slang term for a drug, as traded on the streets. / A person’s nickname, such as a gangster or mafia name. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see street, name.

Alternative form of newfangled

A body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates the activities of research in (nearly always) the sciences and (sometimes) other disciplines.

(idiomatic) to interfere or try to intervene in an issue that does not concern one.