ergodic

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Etymology

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International Scientific Vocabulary ergo- +‎ -ode (+ -ic). The etymological origin is disputed: ἔργον (érgon) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, way) versus ἔργον (érgon) +‎ εἶδος (eîdos, image).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɜɹˈɡɑdɪk/, /ɜɹˈɡoʊdɪk/
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Adjective

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ergodic (comparative more ergodic, superlative most ergodic)

  1. (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.”
  2. (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
  3. (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.

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References

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  1. ^ Uffink, Jos (2017) “Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1]
  2. ^ Gallavotti, Giovanni (1995) “Ergodicity, ensembles, irreversibility in Boltzmann and beyond.”, in Journal of Statistical Physics[2], volume 78, pages 1571--1589

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