Ergodic

Quick meaning: Ergodic is an adjective meaning (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state.

Meaning

(mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state.

More Meanings

1. (literature, information science) Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.
2. (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.

Example Sentences

“The real world is not ergodic,” he says. “If I jump out of the window, that's it–it's not, like, a mistake I will learn from.”

Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include egodic, katastematic, catastematic, chronogeometric, physiotemporal, cyclic.

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