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Deterministic vs Dependable - What's the difference?

deterministic | dependable |

As adjectives the difference between deterministic and dependable

is that deterministic is of, or relating to determinism while dependable is able, or easily able to be depended on.

As a noun dependable is

a reliable person or thing.

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

    dependable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able, or easily able to be depended on.
    • He was a very dependable person.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reliable person or thing.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 7, author=Jeff Z. Klein, title=At Full Strength, Red Wings Dominate, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But Datsyuk’s return rejuvenated the old dependables like Rafalski, Lidstrom and Marian Hossa, who consistently outshone Malkin and Crosby. }}