Stochastic
[stə-KAS-tik]
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Greek, mid-17th century
1.
Randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
Examples of Stochastic in a sentence
"I painted stars on my ceiling in a stochastic pattern."
"Matthew excelled at statistics, especially analyzing stochastic patterns."
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