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er·god·ic    Audio Help   [ur-god-ik] Pronunciation Key
–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- + Gk (h)od(ós) way, road + -ic]

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er·go·dic·i·ty    Audio Help   [ur-guh-dis-i-tee] Pronunciation Key, 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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