probabilistically

adverb

In a probabilistic manner; using a method based on probability.

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Meanings

adverbprobabilistically (comparative more probabilistically, superlative most probabilistically)

comparative more probabilistically · superlative most probabilistically

  1. In a probabilistic manner; using a method based on probability.
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    The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.

    2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishprobabilistic
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  5. Proto-Germanic*līką
  6. Englishprobabilistically

From probabilistic + -ally.

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