ergodic

Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state.

Adjective

  1. 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...
  2. Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
  3. 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:

Origin

International Scientific Vocabulary ergo- + -ode (+ -ic). The etymological origin is disputed: ἔργον (érgon) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”) versus ἔργον (érgon) + εἶδος (eîdos, “image”).

Forms

more ergodic most ergodic

Antonyms

nonergodic

Derived

ergodically ergodic hypothesis ergodicity ergodic theory microergodic nonergodic