[ur-god-ik] 
| 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. |
| ergodicity | |
noun | |
| an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions |
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