promiscuous

  1. Adjective.  Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
  2. Adjective.  Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
  3. Adjective.  Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
  4. Adjective.  (networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

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