stochastic
UK/stəˈkæstɪk/
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standard/stəˈkæstɪk/
stochastic adjective: random, randomly determined.
Adjective
stochastic (comparative more stochastic, superlative most stochastic)
- random, randomly determined.
- 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.1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
- 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...2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 760
stochastic meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
stochastic in Hindi
- random
- यादृच्छिक yādŕcchik
stochastic in Marathi
- random
- यादृच्छिक yādŕcchik
stochastic in Urdu
- سٹاکسٹک, سٹاکاسٹک, سٹوچسٹک
stochastic in Bengali
- স্টোকাস্টিক, স্টোকেস্টিক
More languagesFewer languages
- stochastic in Malayalam
- സ്റ്റോക്കാസ്റ്റിക്
- stochastic in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟಾಕಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್, ಸ್ಟಾಕ್ಯಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್
- stochastic in Punjabi
- ਸਟੋਕਾਸਟਿਕ
- stochastic in Gujarati
- સ્ટોકેસ્ટિક, સ્ટોકેસ્ટીક
- stochastic in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟୋକାସ୍ଟିକ୍, ଷ୍ଟୋକାସ୍ଟିକ
- stochastic in Sanskrit
- यादृच्छिक yādṛcchika
- stochastic in Nepali
- स्टोकेस्टिक, स्टोकास्टिक, स्टोकेस्टीक
- stochastic in Arabic
- عَشْوَائيّ, غَيْر مُصَمَّم ḡayr muṣammam
- stochastic in Thai
- สุ่ม sùm
Examples of stochastic in a sentence
- How does stochastic terrorism unfold in the course of real-world events?
- This indicates that from a predictive viewpoint, stochastic processes and deterministic systems are very similar.
- Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size.
Synonyms of stochastic
Forms of stochastic
| comparative | more stochastic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stochastic |
Origin of stochastic
From Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).
Words formed from stochastic
- astochastic
- bistochastic
- dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
- magnetostochastic
- nonstochastic
- quasistochastic
- stochastical
- stochastically
- stochastic calculus
- stochastic differential equation
- stochasticism
- stochasticity
- stochastic matrix
- stochastic parrot
- stochastic process
- stochastics
- stochastic terror
- stochastic terrorism
- stochastic terrorist
- stoquastic
- substochastic
Phrases with stochastic
Words that rhyme with stochastic
- plastic
- elastic
- fantastic
- bombastic
- mastic
- spastic
- heteroplastic
- inelastic
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- aclastic
- alloplastic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- anaclastic
- anaplastic
- anticlastic
- aplastic
- autoplastic
- basiplastic
- ceroplastic
- chiastic
- clastic
- cosmoplastic
- drastic
- encomiastic
- enthusiastic
- epispastic
- gelastic
- gymnastic
- heteroblastic
- holophrastic
- homoblastic
- homoplastic
- macroplastic
- normoplastic
- onomastic
- paraphrastic
- sarcastic
- synclastic
- achondroplastic
- agelastic
- antineoplastic
- antiphrastic
- antispastic
- apicoplastic
- autoschediastic
- cataclastic
- chiliastic
- conplastic
- cranioplastic
- docimastic
- dramastic
- dynastic
- dysplastic
- ecclesiastic
- ectoblastic
- ectoplastic
- electroplastic
- emplastic
- epiblastic
- epinastic
Questions about stochastic
- What does stochastic mean?
- Stochastic means random, randomly determined.
- What is stochastic in Hindi?
- Stochastic in Hindi is यादृच्छिक (yādŕcchik). See Stochastic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stochastic?
- Stochastic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce stochastic?
- Stochastic is pronounced /stəˈkæstɪk/ (standard).
Words near stochastic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stochastic (page history and authors); stochastic (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stochastic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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