memoryless

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

memoryless

Wikipedia

Etymology

From memory +‎ -less.

Adjective

memoryless (not comparable)

1. Without a memory or memories.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Now the wide and vacant blurrings of my early life thicken in my mind. All goes wholly memoryless to me now. It may have been that about that time I grew sick with some fever, […]

2. (probability theory) Of a probability distribution, such that any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples.

Derived terms

• memorylessness

See also

• stateless