English Explanatory Dictionary

Markovian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states.
adj
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Markovian.

Pronunciation

/mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/

Word forms

Markovian

Etymology

From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.

Derived words

Markovianity non-Markovian time-homogeneous Markovian type time-independent Markovian type
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