noun
- the quality or state of not occurring at regular intervals or not having a repeating pattern
Usage: technical; mathematics; physics
Examples
- The aperiodicity of the earthquake data made it difficult to predict future seismic events.
- Scientists studied the aperiodicity in the star’s brightness variations.
- The mathematical model exhibited aperiodicity, showing no repeating cycles.
- Researchers noted the aperiodicity of the patient’s sleep patterns.
- The aperiodicity of the signal indicated a chaotic system.
- Weather patterns often display aperiodicity over long time scales.