ergodic

ergodic

English

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary erg- +‎ -ode (+ -ic)

Disputations[1][2] are held about the true etymological origin: ἔργον + ὁδός versus ἔργον + εἶδος.

Adjective

ergodic (comparative more ergodic, superlative most ergodic)

1. (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.
2. (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
3. (literature, information science) Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.

Derived terms

• ergodic hypothesis
• ergodic theory

Translations

of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state

French: ergodique (fr) German: ergodisch Greek: εργοδικός (el) (ergodikós) Italian: ergodico Swedish: ergodisk

References

1. Uffink, Jos (2017), “Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‎
2. Gallavotti, Giovanni (1995), “Ergodicity, ensembles, irreversibility in Boltzmann and beyond.”, in Journal of Statistical Physics‎, volume 78, pages 1571--1589

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