Re:What is ergodicity? (2016)
by Retra on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:10PM
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The dictionary is not a reliable place to look up technical terms. (Actually, it's not a reliable place to look up most anything.)
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Re:What is ergodicity? (2016)
by uniformlyrandom on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:57PM
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Are you contesting either of the meanings?
No, I'm questioning the validity of answering the title question by consulting a dictionary. That's not how one should go about answering technical questions, even if we find it works sometimes. (The proper way to address the question would also allow you to recognize when a dictionary was wrong.)
Dictionaries don't actually tell you what a word means, they give examples of what it may mean from common usage.