memoryless

English

Etymology

From memory +‎ -less.

Adjective

memoryless (not comparable)

  1. Without a memory or memories.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      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. (probability theory) 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.

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