English

Adjective
en-adj

1. of, or relating to determinism
2. mathematics|of a Turing machine having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state
3. physics|of a system Having exactly predictable time evolution.
4. computing|of an algorithm Having each state depend only on the immediately previous state, as opposed to having some states depend on backtracking where there may be multiple possible next actions and no way to chose between them except by trying each one and backtracking upon failure.
5. rfv-sense Internet slang Used to desribe a straight man who has MMF threesomes

References
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe

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