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stochastic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????????? (stokhastikós), from ?????????? (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from ?????? (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??kæst?k/
- Rhymes: -æst?k
Adjective
stochastic (comparative more stochastic, superlative most stochastic)
- Random, randomly determined.
- 1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
- 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 854:
- 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.
- 1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
Usage notes
The term refers to the process of determination being random, regardless of any particular outcome. Flipping a fair coin that lands heads 100 times in a row (in practice, impossibly unlikely, or proof that the coin is not a fair one) could still be contemplated as the outcome of a stochastic procedure.
Coordinate terms
- probabilistic
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- stochastic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- octastichs
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statistic
English
Etymology
Back-formation from statistics.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??t?st?k/
Adjective
statistic (comparative more statistic, superlative most statistic)
- Alternative form of statistical
Translations
Noun
statistic (plural statistics)
- A single item in a statistical study.
- A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
- A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
Synonyms
- (person, reduced to item of information): number
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:statistic
Derived terms
- statistically
- statistician
Translations
Anagrams
- Atticists
Ladin
Adjective
statistic m pl
- plural of statistich
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French statistique and German statistisch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sta?tis.tik/
Adjective
statistic m or n (feminine singular statistic?, masculine plural statistici, feminine and neuter plural statistice)
- statistic, statistical
Declension
Related terms
- statistic?
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