stochastic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /stəˈkæstɪk/ (standard)
- /ˈstoʊkæstɪk/ nonstandard, Americanism
- /ˈstoʊt͡ʃæstɪk/ (rare)
- /ˈstəʉkæstɪk/ (Australia)
- /stəˈkæstɪk/ (Australia)
- (California) audio
- /stəˈkæstɪk/ (Canada, General-American)
- /stəˈkæstɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).
Meanings
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random, randomly determined.
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.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 760: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.
1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most stochastic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more stochastic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
stochastics · bistochastic · nonstochastic · stochasticity · stochastic matrix · magnetostochastic · stochastic terrorist · stochasticism · stochastically · stochastic process · astochastic · quasistochastic · stochastic terror · stoquastic · stochastic differential equation · stochastic parrot · substochastic · stochastical · stochastic terrorism · dynamic stochastic general equilibrium · stochastic calculus
Synonyms
Translations (44)
da stokastisk (random) · eu estokastiko (random) · cmn 隨機 /随机 (random) · ca estocàstic (random) · es estocástico (random) · bg случаен (random) · nn stokastisk (random) · de zufallsabhängig (random) · kk стохастикалық (random) · kk кездейсоқ (random) · de zufallsbedingt (random) · de stochastisch (random) · cs stochastický (random) · pt estocástico (random) · pl stochastyczny (random) · el στοχαστικός (random) · sh stohastički (random) · th สุ่ม (random) · ar عَشْوَائيّ (random) · ja 確率論的な (random) · hi यादृच्छिक (random) · fr stochastique (random) · bg вероятностен (random) · nb stokastisk (random) · pt aleatório (random) · nl stochastiek (random) · sv stokastisk (random) · ru стохасти́ческий (random) · ro stocastic (random) · is tilviljanakenndur (random) · sh стохастички (random) · sa यादृच्छिक (random) · fi satunnainen (random) · mk стоха́стичен (random) · et juhuslik (random) · is slembinn (random) · fi stokastinen (random) · is slembi- (random) · it stocastico (random) · ja 推測の (random) · mr यादृच्छिक (random) · fi sattumanvarainen (random) · ar غَيْر مُصَمَّم (random) · eo stokasta (random)