deterministic

From determinist +‎ -ic.

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪˌtɝ.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
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(General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dəˌtøː.məˈnəs.tək/

deterministic (comparative more deterministic, superlative most deterministic)

(philosophy) Of, or relating to determinism.
Antonym: indeterministic
(mathematics, of a Turing machine) Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
Antonym: nondeterministic
- 2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 81:
  Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.
(physics, of a system) Having exactly predictable time evolution.
(computing, of an algorithm) For a given particular input, always producing the same output through the same sequence of states.
Antonym: nondeterministic
- 2014, Hélder Rodrigues et al., editors, Engineering Optimization, volume IV, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 311:
  On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms.

of or relating to determinism

of a Turing machine

having exactly predictable time evolution

computing, producing the same output for a given input

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