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noun Statistics.
a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
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Also called variate.

Origin of random variable

First recorded in 1935–40
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British Dictionary definitions for random variable

random variable

noun
statistics a quantity that may take any of a range of values, either continuous or discrete, which cannot be predicted with certainty but only described probabilisticallyAbbreviation: rv
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