arbitrary

  1. Adjective.  (context, usually) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
  2. Adjective.  Determined by impulse rather than reason; heavy-handed.
  3. Adjective.  (mathematics) Any and all possible.

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