different between deterministic vs voluntaristic

English

Etymology

determinist +? -ic

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??t??m?n?st?k/

Adjective

deterministic (comparative more deterministic, superlative most deterministic)

1. Of, or relating to determinism.
2. (mathematics, of a Turing machine) Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
3. (physics, of a system) Having exactly predictable time evolution.
4. (computing, of an algorithm) Having each state depend only on the immediately previous state, as opposed to having some states depend on backtracking where there may be multiple possible next actions and no way to choose between them except by trying each one and backtracking upon failure.

Antonyms

• indeterministic
• nondeterministic

Translations

References

• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe

English

Etymology

From voluntarist +? -ic or voluntary +? -istic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?l?nt????st?k/

Adjective

voluntaristic (comparative more voluntaristic, superlative most voluntaristic)

1. Pertaining to voluntary activity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 183:

     Open space, the incursions of commercialism and the growing prestige of polite society produced an urban environment increasingly consonant with the voluntaristic collective culture of the philosophes.

Related terms

• voluntarist
• voluntarism