PROBABILISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does probabilistic mean? 

• PROBABILISTIC (adjective)
  The adjective PROBABILISTIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism

2. of or relating to or based on probability

  Familiarity information: PROBABILISTIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROBABILISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

probabilism (a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable)

Derivation:

probabilism (a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or based on probability

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

probabilistic quantum theory

Pertainym:

probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)

Derivation:

probabilism ((philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action)

probability (the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event)

probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)

 Context examples 

Algorithm used in statistics for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models, where the model depends on unobserved latent (inferred) variables.

(Expectation Maximization Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)