Definition of "nondeterministic" [nondeterministic]

• Exhibiting nondeterminism; involving choices between indistinguishable possibilities. (adjective)

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• ""When you write a parallel program, it's easy to make a program nondeterministic, meaning where different outcomes, or logic paths, are possible," Reinders says."
• "Experimentally observed violations of Bell's inequalities demonstrate that quantum randomness is nondeterministic, unlike its classical counterpart (or the digits of π)."
• "A logically equivalent, information-theoretic reformulation of this definition takes intelligence as those causal factors that induce a net increase in information as measured by the information measure I. Note that by a stochastic mechanism, here, I mean any causal process governed exclusively by the interplay between chance and necessity and characterized by unbroken deterministic and nondeterministic laws."