What does "random walk" mean?

A stochastic path consisting of a series of sequential movements, the direction (and sometime length) of which is chosen at random.

Random walk

Common synonyms include: aimless stroll, drunkard's walk, probabilistic, random, random motion, stochastic.

noun

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Noun

1
A stochastic path consisting of a series of sequential movements, the direction (and sometime length) of which is chosen at random.
2
a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance wordnet