antithetic

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English

Etymology

From Latin antitheticus.

Adjective

antithetic (comparative more antithetic, superlative most antithetic)

  1. diametrically opposed
  2. antithetical

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Noun

antithetic (plural antithetics)

  1. (statistics) Short for antithetic variate.
    • 2017, P. W. A. Lewis, Ed McKenzie, Simulation Methodology for Statisticians, Operations Analysts, and Engineers:
      Unlike antithetics, a control variable can be used for any attribute of the random variable Y that is being simulated []