| a. | 1. | of or pertaining to determinism; |
| 2. | causally determined and not subject to random chance. |
| Adj. | 1. | deterministic - an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes |
| 1. | (probability) | deterministic - Describes a system whose time evolution can
be predicted exactly. Contrast probabilistic. | |
| 2. | (algorithm) | deterministic - Describes an algorithm in which the correct next step depends only on the current state. This contrasts with an algorithm involving backtracking where at each point there may be several possible actions and no way to chose between them except by trying each one and backtracking if it fails. |