Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
deterministic \de*ter`min*ist"ic\, a.
1. of or pertaining to determinism; as, deterministic
theories.
[PJC]
2. causally determined and not subject to random chance.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
deterministic
adj 1: an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
deterministic
1. Describes a system whose time evolution can
be predicted exactly.
Contrast probabilistic.
2. Describes an algorithm in which the correct
next step depends only on the current state. This contrasts
with an algorithm involving backtracking where at each point
there may be several possible actions and no way to chose
between them except by trying each one and backtracking if it
fails.
(1995-09-22)