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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

content, cognitive content, mental object go
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

thought, idea go
the content of cognition

conception, concept, construct go
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

possibility, hypothesis, theory go
a tentative insight into the natural world

model, framework, theoretical account go
a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

stochastic process
a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)

noun.process

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Markov process, Markoff process go
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
random walk go
a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance
stationary stochastic process go
a stochastic process in which the distribution of the random variables is the same for any value of the variable parameter