Markov process or Markoff process WORD ORIGIN noun Statistics. a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of Markov process 1935–40; after Russian mathematician Andreĭ Andreevich Markov (1856–1922), who developed it Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019