ergodic

Meaning

Adjective

• Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.
• Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.

Origin

• International Scientific Vocabulary erg- + -ode (+ -ic)
• Disputations are held about the true etymological origin: ἔργον + ὁδός versus ἔργον + εἶδος.