er·god·ic

[ur-god-ik]
adjective Mathematics, Statistics.
of or pertaining to the condition that, in an interval of sufficient duration, a system will return to states that are closely similar to previous ones: the assumption of such a condition underlies statistical methods used in modern dynamics and atomic theory.

Origin:
1925–30; erg- + Greek (h)od(ós) way, road + -ic

er·go·dic·i·ty [ur-guh-dis-i-tee] , noun
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ergodic

adjective
positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions 
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Ergodic is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Let denote a one to one ergodic measure-preserving shift transformation.
Ergodic theory of dynamical systems, probability, and information theory.
Stationary ergodic models imply that the variance of forward rates converges to zero as the maturity increases.
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