adj
Meaning 1
Random, randomly determined.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: aleatory, random, haphazard
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stochastic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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standard: /stəˈkæstɪk/
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Received-Pronunciation: /stəˈkæstɪk/
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Canada, General-American: /stəˈkæstɪk/
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California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/ˈstoʊkæstɪk/ nonstandard, Americanism
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rare: /ˈstoʊt͡ʃæstɪk/
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Australian: /stəˈkæstɪk/
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Australian: /ˈstəʉkæstɪk/
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rhymes with -æstɪk
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CMU ARPABET: S T OW0 K AE1 S T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
being or having a random variable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a stochastic variable
- stochastic processes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَشْوَائيّ — random
- Arabic: غَيْر مُصَمَّم (ḡayr muṣammam) — random
- Basque: estokastiko — random
- Bulgarian: случаен (slučaen) — random
- Bulgarian: вероятностен (verojatnosten) — random
- Catalan: estocàstic — random
- Chinese Mandarin: 隨機 /随机 (suíjī) — random
- Czech: stochastický — random
- Danish: stokastisk — random
- Dutch: stochastiek — random
- Esperanto: stokasta — random
- Estonian: juhuslik — random
- Finnish: stokastinen — random
- Finnish: satunnainen — random
- Finnish: sattumanvarainen — random
- French: stochastique — random
- German: stochastisch — random
- German: zufallsabhängig — random
- German: zufallsbedingt — random
- Greek: στοχαστικός (stochastikós) — random
- Hindi: यादृच्छिक (yādŕcchik) — random
- Icelandic: slembi- — random
- Icelandic: slembinn — random
- Icelandic: tilviljanakenndur — random
- Italian: stocastico — random
- Japanese: 推測の (suisoku no) — random
- Japanese: 確率論的な (kakuritsurontekina) — random
- Kazakh: кездейсоқ (kezdeisoq) — random
- Kazakh: стохастикалық (stoxastikalyq) — random
- Macedonian: стоха́стичен (stohástičen) — random
- Marathi: यादृच्छिक (yādŕcchik) — random
- Norwegian Bokmål: stokastisk — random
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stokastisk — random
- Polish: stochastyczny — random
- Portuguese: estocástico — random
- Portuguese: aleatório — random
- Romanian: stocastic — random
- Russian: стохасти́ческий (stoxastíčeskij) — random
- Sanskrit: यादृच्छिक (yādṛcchika) — random
- Serbo-Croatian: стохастички — random
- Serbo-Croatian: stohastički — random
- Spanish: estocástico — random
- Swedish: stokastisk — random
- Thai: สุ่ม (sùm) — random
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