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''deterministic'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260606151242-00-⌔

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Adjective

deterministic (comparative more deterministic, superlative most deterministic)

  • (philosophy) Of, or relating to determinism.
    • ✤ Antonym: indeterministic
  • (mathematics, of a Turing machine) Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
    • ✤ Antonym: nondeterministic
    • ✤ 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.1
  • (physics, of a system) Having exactly predictable time evolution.
  • (computing, of an algorithm) For a given particular input, always producing the same output through the same sequence of states.
    • ✤ Antonym: nondeterministic
    • ✤ On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms.2

Etymology

From determinist + -ic.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: /dɪˌtɝ.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
    • Audio (Texas): 🔊
  • (Australian) IPA: /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /dəˌtøː.məˈnəs.tək/

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Footnotes

  1. 2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 81: ↩

  2. 2014, Hélder Rodrigues et al., editors, Engineering Optimization, volume IV, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 311: ↩

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