deterministic
C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Such that a given initial state completely fixes the outcome, leaving no role for chance.
Classical mechanics is deterministic: specify the positions and velocities and the future is settled.
Business adjective
Describing a model in which outcomes are fully determined by initial conditions, with no element of randomness.
The finance team's deterministic model gave a single forecast, ignoring the range of possible market outcomes.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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