ergodic
adj/ɜɹˈɡɑdɪk/ · /ɜɹˈɡoʊdɪk/
Etymology International Scientific Vocabulary ergo- + -ode (+ -ic). The etymological origin is disputed: ἔργον (érgon) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”) versus ἔργον (érgon) + εἶδος (eîdos, “image”).
Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state.
- “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.”2020, Brian Christian, quoting Jan Leike, “Conclusion”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Statistics Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Information science, Literature, Mathematics, Media, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Publishing, Sciences Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.
- Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
- Antonyms
- nonergodic
- Derived terms
- ergodically, ergodic hypothesis, ergodicity, ergodic theory, microergodic, nonergodic