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ergodic

a. 1 (context mathematics physics English) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state. 2 (context statistics engineering English) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.

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ergodic

adj. positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions

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Ergodic (disambiguation)

Aside from its generic use as the generic adjective ergodic, ergodic may relate to:

  • Ergodicity, mathematical description of a dynamical system which, broadly speaking, has the same behavior averaged over time as averaged over the space of all the system's states (phase space)
  • Ergodic hypothesis, a postulate of thermodynamics
  • Ergodic theory, a branch of mathematics
  • Ergodic literature, literature that requires special effort to navigate
  • Ergodic process, a particular type of stochastic processes

Usage examples of "ergodic".

Fourier analysis, ergodic functions, Cauchy distributions, and other stochastic methods had made no sense of it.

DEUS explained this truly remarkable coincidence with sophisticated topological analysis, using the transfinite derivatives of ergodics.