ergodic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
International Scientific Vocabulary ergo- + -ode (+ -ic). The etymological origin is disputed: ἔργον (érgon) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”) versus ἔργον (érgon) + εἶδος (eîdos, “image”).[1][2]
ergodic (comparative more ergodic, superlative most ergodic)
- (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state.
2020, Brian Christian, quoting Jan Leike, “Conclusion”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
“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.”
- (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
- (literature, information science) Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.
2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.