ergodic

  1. Adjective.  (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.
  2. Adjective.  (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.

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