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tatonnement

tatonnement noun: an iterative auction process by which an exchange equilibrium is imagined to be achieved.

Noun

tatonnement (plural tatonnements)

  1. An iterative auction process by which an exchange equilibrium is imagined to be achieved.
    • Alternatively, we may use a tatonnement algorithm guessing an initial sequence #92;#123;K#95;t#92;#125;#95;#123;t#61;0#125;ᵀ and updating it after each iteration i[.]2024, Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner, Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications, third edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 503

Forms of tatonnement

pluraltatonnements

Origin of tatonnement

Borrowed from French tâtonnement (“groping”).

Questions about tatonnement

What does tatonnement mean?
Tatonnement means an iterative auction process by which an exchange equilibrium is imagined to be achieved.
What part of speech is tatonnement?
Tatonnement is a noun.
What is the plural of tatonnement?
The plural of tatonnement is tatonnements.

Words near tatonnement in the dictionary

  1. TatNet
  2. Tato
  3. Tatom
  4. Tatoms
  5. Tatong
  6. tatonnement
  7. tatonnements
  8. tatoo
  9. Tatooine
  10. tatoos
  11. tator

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