deterministic
/dɪˌtɝ.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or relating to determinism.
adj
Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms."
Etymology
Etymology tree English determinist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English deterministic From determinist + -ic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˌtɝ.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
- British English: /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
Inflected Forms
more deterministic (comparative)
most deterministic (superlative)