Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by conjecture; conjectural.
- adj. Statistics Involving or containing a random variable or variables: stochastic calculus.
- adj. Statistics Involving chance or probability: a stochastic stimulation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Conjectural; given to or partaking of conjecture.
Wiktionary
- adj. Random, randomly-determined.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Conjectural; able to conjecture.
- adj. random; chance; involving probability; opposite of
deterministic . - adj. of or pertaining to a process in which a series of calculations, selections, or observations are made, each one being randomly determined as a sample from a probability distribution.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being or having a random variable
Etymologies
- Greek stokhastikos, from stokhastēs, diviner, from stokhazesthai, to guess at, from stokhos, aim, goal; see stegh- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The experimental technique has entered the annals of science under the name of "stochastic cooling.”
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“The irregular trend in integrated series is known as a stochastic trend as opposed to a simple linear deterministic time trend.”
“It seems farfetched, but it's based on a physical principle called stochastic resonance.”
“Pearle's approach requires the precise formulation of the idea of stochastic Lorentz invariance.”
“Alexander develops the notion of stochastic technê further in his commentary on Aristotle's Topics.”
“He calls stochastic, then, the sorts of technê whose task is to try everything possible to achieve their goal, the realization of the goal being subject to chance.”
“This is analogous to a paradoxical physical phenomenon known as stochastic resonance, in which an increase in noise enhances the detection of weak signals.”
“However, it was shown that the correction of the fluctuation of the average position of a great many particles was sufficient to produce a cooling effect, hence the name stochastic cooling.”
“From a technical analysis viewpoint, KASB Securities analyst Aiyaz Hassan said gold's so-called stochastic oscillator - an indicator of momentum in prices - has generated a buy signal for the precious metal.”
“One thing to note from the stochastic is the bearish aggression that brought the oscillator oversold.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stochastic’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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words-for-apocalipstick
all your words are belong to me.
sybaritic, cacography, scatterbrain, extravaganza, fenestra, kaleidophone, machination, mudpuppy, saturnalia, Bacchanalia, ersatz, fictile and 57 more...
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Random Words! Add Your Own! :D
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Love, bucket, brigade, actuary, canal, canasta, why is the door open, coconut, stochastic, haphazard, accidental, chance and 38 more...
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theyearofglad's list
Awesome words.
palimpsest, portmanteau, prolix, sycophant, eschew, revenant, haecceity, velleity, equipoise, caesura, soteriology, inchoate and 23 more...
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Vocabulology
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Pretentious, Esoteric & Too Beautiful
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sciencey nature
hibernaculum, mangel-wurzel, bogbean, chromatic, stochastic, palimpsest
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Common Man Use
jwjarvis work encompassed by the "stochastic arts"--those that "diagnose and fix things that are variable, complex, and not of our own making." He includes in this category mechanics and medical practitioners and those with other occupations which, because of the constant risk of failure, at least potentially prevent self-absorption, and instead "cultivate not creativity, but the less glamorous virtue of attentiveness" May 19, 2010
dontcry Funny, this came up when I was 'randoming.' Oct 20, 2009