deterministic

Of, or relating to determinism.

Adjective

  1. Of, or relating to determinism.

    Antonyms: indeterministic

  2. Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
    • 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. - 2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining...

    Antonyms: nondeterministic

  3. Having exactly predictable time evolution.
  4. For a given particular input, always producing the same output through the same sequence of states.
    • On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms. - 2014, Hélder Rodrigues et al., editors, Engineering Optimization, volume IV,...

    Antonyms: nondeterministic

Origin

Etymology tree English determinist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English deterministic From determinist + -ic.

Forms

more deterministic most deterministic

Derived

deterministically deterministic Turing machine ecodeterministic nondeterministic semideterministic spatiodeterministic superdeterministic undeterministic