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)

1. (philosophy) Of, or relating to determinism.

   Antonym: indeterministic

2. (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.

3. (physics, of a system) Having exactly predictable time evolution.
4. (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.