What is the difference between arbiter and arbitrary?
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A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
* 1931 , William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local , page 495
(with of) A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
(electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
To act as arbiter.
* 2003 , Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French , page 116
(usually, of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
Determined by impulse rather than reason; heavy-handed.
(mathematics) Any and all possible.
Determined by independent arbiter.
Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.
Arbitrary is a related term of arbiter.
Arbiter is a related term of arbitrary.
As a noun arbiter
is a person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.As a verb arbiter
is to act as arbiter.As a adjective arbitrary is
(usually|of a decision) based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.arbiter
English
Noun
(en noun)- In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
- Television and film, not ''Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
Verb
(en verb)- Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.
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English
Adjective
(arbitrariness) (en adjective)- Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary . In fact, electrons flow in the opposite direction to conventional current.
- The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary , as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives.
- "The Russian trials were Stalin's purges, with which he attempted to consolidate his power. Like most people in the West, I believed these show trials to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator." (
Max Born, Letters to Einstein
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- The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.
- To secure food safety, there should first be a national standard to arbitrarily state what is wholesome and what is not; second, the final buyer should know exactly what he is purchasing. (
The World's Work ...: a history of our time
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