Stochastic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /stəˈkæstɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Stochastic is an adjective meaning Random, randomly determined.
Meaning
Random, randomly determined.
Example Sentences
In the evening, while she bathed, waiting for him to enter the bathroom as she powdered her body, he crouched over the blueprints spread between the sofas in the lounge, calculating a stochastic analysis of the Pentagon car park.
Self-slaughter, as Hamlet always says, was certainly in the cards, unless one had been out here long enough to have contemplated the will of God, observed the stochastic whimsy of the day, learned when and when not to whisper “Insh'allah,” and understood how, as one perhaps might never have in England, to await, to depend upon, the ineluctable departure of what was most dear.
Synonyms for stochastic
Depending on context, synonyms include aleatory, random, haphazard.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include random, randomized, uncertain, randomised, probabilistic, chance.
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