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Determinist vs Deterministic - What's the difference?

determinist | deterministic |

As adjectives the difference between determinist and deterministic

is that determinist is characteristic of determinism while deterministic is of, or relating to determinism.

As a noun determinist

is an advocate of determinism.

determinist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An advocate of determinism
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of determinism
  • deterministic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, or relating to determinism
  • (mathematics, of a Turing machine) having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state
  • (physics, of a system) Having exactly predictable time evolution.
  • (computing, of an algorithm) Having each state depend only on the immediately previous state, as opposed to having some states depend on backtracking where there may be multiple possible next actions and no way to choose between them except by trying each one and backtracking upon failure.
  • Antonyms

    * indeterministic * nondeterministic

    References

    * The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe