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Etymology
Etymology tree English probabilistic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English probabilistically From probabilistic + -ally.
Meanings
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In a probabilistic manner; using a method based on probability.
The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.
2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| more probabilistically | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most probabilistically | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |