NASH EQUILIBRIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nash equilibrium mean? 

• NASH EQUILIBRIUM (noun)
  The noun NASH EQUILIBRIUM has 1 sense:

1. (game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged

  Familiarity information: NASH EQUILIBRIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NASH EQUILIBRIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Nash equilibrium" is a kind of...):

equilibrium (a stable situation in which forces cancel one another)

Domain category:

game theory; theory of games ((economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players)