ergodicity

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noun

The condition of being ergodic.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

nounergodicity (countable and uncountable, plural ergodicities)

plural ergodicities

  1. uncountableThe condition of being ergodic.

    Hence it is no problem to learn by making hundreds of thousands of largely random, and frequently fatal, mistakes. The ergodicity assumption does not hold outside the safe toy worlds of Atari.

    2020, Brian Christian, “Conclusion”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN
  2. countableThe extent to which something is ergodic.

Origin

Translations

Afrikaans ergodisiteit
  • ergodisiteitcondition of being ergodic
Catalan ergodicitat
  • ergodicitatcondition of being ergodic
Dutch ergodiciteit
  • ergodiciteitcondition of being ergodic
French ergodicité
  • ergodicitécondition of being ergodic
German Ergodizität
  • Ergodizitätcondition of being ergodic
Greek εργοδικότητα
  • εργοδικότητα (ergodikótita)condition of being ergodic
Italian ergodicità
  • ergodicitàcondition of being ergodic
Polish ergodyczność
  • ergodycznośćcondition of being ergodic
Russian эргоди́чность
  • эргоди́чность (ergodíčnostʹ)condition of being ergodic
Spanish ergodicidad
  • ergodicidadcondition of being ergodic
Swedish ergodicitet
  • ergodicitetcondition of being ergodic
Ukrainian ергоди́чність
  • ергоди́чність (erhodýčnistʹ)condition of being ergodic
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APA

ergodicity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ergodicity

MLA

“ergodicity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ergodicity. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ergodicity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ergodicity.

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