Memoryless

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a memory or memories. not-comparable

    "Now the wide and vacant blurrings of my early life thicken in my mind. All goes wholly memoryless to me now. It may have been that about that time I grew sick with some fever, […]"

  2. 2
    Of a probability distribution, such that any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples. not-comparable

Example

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"Now the wide and vacant blurrings of my early life thicken in my mind. All goes wholly memoryless to me now. It may have been that about that time I grew sick with some fever, […]"

Etymology

From memory + -less.

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probability distribution

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