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English

Etymology

From , from ‘aim at a target, guess’, from ‘an aim, a guess’.

Pronunciation


Adjective

  1. random|Random, randomly-determined.
  2. *1970, w:J. G. Ballard|J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
  3. *:In the evening, while she bathed, waiting for him to enter the bathroom as she powdered her body, he crouched over the blueprints spread between the sofas in the lounge, calculating a stochastic analysis of the Pentagon car park.
  4. *2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 854:
  5. *:Self-slaughter, as Hamlet always says, was certainly in the cards, unless one had been out here long enough to have contemplated the will of God, observed the stochastic whimsy of the day, learned when and when not to whisper “Insh'allah,” and understood how, as one perhaps might never have in England, to await, to depend upon, the ineluctable departure of what was most dear.


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Derived terms


id:stochastic hu:stochastic pl:stochastic ru:stochastic vi:stochastic

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stochastic \Sto*chas"tic\ (st[-o]*k[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Gr.
stochastiko`s, from stocha`zesqai to aim, to guess, fr.
sto`chos mark or aim.]
1. Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] --Whitefoot.
[1913 Webster]

2. random; chance; involving probability; opposite of
deterministic.
[GG]

3. (Statistics) of or pertaining to a process in which a
series of calculations, selections, or observations are
made, each one being randomly determined as a sample from
a probability distribution.

Note: Where physical phenomena are modelled as a stochastic
process, each subsequent calculation of a series may
depend on the result of the previous calculation, as in
the modelling of the process of diffusion of molecules.
Many series may be calculated, and the results
averaged, to estimate the most likely result. See also
Markov chain.
[PJC] -- sto*chas"tic*al*ly, adv.
[PJC]
WordNet stochastic
adj : being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable";
"stochastic processes"
Moby Dictionary
aimless
, aleatoric , aleatory , amorphous , blobby , blurred , blurry ,
broad
, casual , causeless , chance , chancy , chaotic , confused ,
designless
, disordered , driftless , dysteleological , foggy , fuzzy ,
general
, haphazard , hazy , hit-or-miss , ill-defined , imprecise ,
inaccurate
, inchoate , incoherent , indecisive , indefinable ,
indefinite
, indeterminable , indeterminate , indiscriminate ,
indistinct
, inexact , inexplicable , lax , loose , mindless ,
nonspecific
, obscure , orderless , promiscuous , purposeless , random ,
shadowed forth
, shadowy , shapeless , stray , sweeping , unaccountable ,
unclear
, undefined , undestined , undetermined , undirected ,
unmotivated
, unplain , unspecified , vague , veiled


FOLDOC stochastic

probabilistic


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