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deterministic | x |

As an adjective deterministic

is of, or relating to determinism.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----