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deterministic

UK/dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/US/dɪˌtɝ.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/

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deterministic adjective: of, or relating to determinism.

Adjective

deterministic (comparative more deterministic, superlative most deterministic)

  1. Of, or relating to determinism.
    Antonyms:
    indeterministic
  2. Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
    • Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 81
  3. Having exactly predictable time evolution.
  4. For a given particular input, always producing the same output through the same sequence of states.
    • On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms.2014, Hélder Rodrigues et al., editors, Engineering Optimization, volume IV, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 311

deterministic meaning in Persian

deterministic in Persian

having exactly predictable time evolution
قطعی

Examples of deterministic in a sentence

  • The aim of this book is to compare deterministic, nondeterministic, and strongly nondeterministic decision trees.
  • This indicates that from a predictive viewpoint, stochastic processes and deterministic systems are very similar.
  • Conventional (deterministic) decision trees are widely used as classifiers, as a means of knowledge representation, and as algorithms.

All 14 example sentences with deterministic

Antonyms of deterministic

Forms of deterministic

comparativemore deterministic
superlativemost deterministic

Origin of deterministic

From determinist + -ic.

Words formed from deterministic

Phrases with deterministic

Questions about deterministic

What does deterministic mean?
Deterministic means of, or relating to determinism.
What is deterministic in Persian?
Deterministic in Persian is قطعی. See Deterministic meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is deterministic?
Deterministic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce deterministic?
Deterministic is pronounced /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/ (UK).

Words near deterministic in the dictionary

  1. determinise
  2. determinised
  3. determinism
  4. determinisms
  5. determinist
  6. deterministic
  7. deterministic algorithm
  8. deterministic Turing machine
  9. deterministic Turing machines
  10. deterministically
  11. determinists

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