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 ar·bi·trary /ˈɑrbəˌtrɛri/
 (a.)任意的,恣意的,專制的

 arbitrary
 任意

 Ar·bi·tra·ry a.
 1. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
    It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so.   --Jer. Taylor.
    Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things.   --Landor.
 2. Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
    Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness.   --Washington.
 3. Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
    --Dryden.
 Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function Math., a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solution may be made to meet special requirements.
 Arbitrary quantity Math., one to which any value can be assigned at pleasure.
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 arbitrary
      adj : based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
            or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary
            decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an
            arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an
            arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group
            into halves" [ant: nonarbitrary]