Stochastic

Stochastic, from the Greek "stochos" or "goal", means of, relating to, or characterized by conjecture; conjectural; random.

Natural science

An example of a stochastic process in the natural world is pressure in a gas. Even though each molecule is moving deterministically, a collection of them is unpredictable (this is an example of chaos arising from order). A large enough set of molecules will exhibit stochastic characteristics, such as filling the container, exerting equal pressure, diffusing along concentration gradients,

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Stochastic process - Pressure - Gas

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etc. These are emergent properties of the system.

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