markov process

1. 1.

   a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state

   SynonymsMarkoff process

   Broaderstochastic process

   NarrowerMarkov chain

Questions about markov process

What does markov process mean?

markov process means "a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state".

What is another word for markov process?

Close synonyms include Markoff process. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is markov process a common word?

markov process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.