| 单词 | stochastic |
| 释义 | stochastic (once / 311035 pages) adj The adjective stochastic describes something that has a random variable. You like to joke that the city buses follow a stochastic schedule because they arrive at random times at the various bus stops. Stochastic is from the Greek word stokhastikos, meaning able to guess, with the root stokhos meaning a target––in Greek stokhos literally means a stick meant for archers to shoot at. The "guess" part of the original Greek work is still part of the word's meaning today: A stochastic process in a computer program, for example, is one where you can't predict what is going to happen in the program because of something random in it. WORD FAMILYstochastic: stochastically, stochasticity USAGE EXAMPLESCritics of the war-as-game metaphor point out that the real world is, if a game at all, a stochastic and messy one. The New Yorker(Mar 15, 2016) Simulated survival probability s as a function of |Q| for the stochastic trials. Nature(Jan 19, 2016) Anton and its successors spend their days bringing world-class processing power to bear on the stochastic wrigglings of protein chains. Salon(Oct 15, 2015) adj being or having a random variable a stochastic variable stochastic processes Syn random lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance |
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