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Stochastic

[stə-KAS-tik]

Part of speech: adjective

Origin: Greek, mid-17th century

1.

Randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.

Examples of Stochastic in a sentence

"I painted stars on my ceiling in a stochastic pattern."

"Matthew excelled at statistics, especially analyzing stochastic patterns."

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