How do you pronounce stochastic?

The recorded pronunciation is /stəˈkæstɪk/.

stochastic

/stəˈkæstɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

Syllables: sto-chas-tic
IPA: /stəˈkæstɪk/

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Meaning

adj

random, randomly determined.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: στοχαστικός

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /stəˈkæstɪk/
British English: /stəˈkæstɪk/

Inflected Forms

more stochastic (comparative) most stochastic (superlative)

Derived Forms

astochastic bistochastic magnetostochastic nonstochastic quasistochastic stochastical stochastically stochasticism stochasticity stochastics stoquastic substochastic

Phrases

dynamic stochastic general equilibrium stochastic calculus stochastic differential equation stochastic matrix stochastic parrot stochastic process stochastic terror stochastic terrorism

Frequently Paired Words

probabilistic

Synonyms

aleatory random haphazard

Rhymes With

fantastic plastic enthusiastic drastic sarcastic elastic scholastic monastic dynastic spastic bombastic thermoplastic