BROWNIAN : As in brownian motion entirely random movement, this way and that, in a liquid or in a gas. It was first observed by mr Brown who saw strange movements of tiny pollen particles in water with a microscope. This strange jerky motion has since been explained as being due to the smoke or dust particles being bumped into all the time by the molecules of the liquid or the gas, sometimes a few more are hitting it from one side, causing the fleck of dust to move in the opposite direction, and at other times a few more may nudge it from another side.