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Deterministic vs Predictive - What's the difference?

deterministic | predictive |

As adjectives the difference between deterministic and predictive

is that deterministic is of, or relating to determinism while predictive is useful in predicting.

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

    predictive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Useful in predicting.
  • :The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
  • (computing) Describing a predictor.

    • Derived terms

    *predictive text

    Antonyms

    *reactive