Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stochastic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stochastic \Sto*chas"tic\ (st[-o]*k[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Gr.
stochastiko`s, from stocha`zesqai to aim, to guess, fr.
sto`chos mark or aim.]
1. Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] --Whitefoot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stochastic
adj : (statistics) being or having a random variable; "a
stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes"
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