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Monte Carlo method

Syllabification: (Mon·te Car·lo meth·od)

Definition of Monte Carlo method

noun

Statistics

a technique in which a large quantity of randomly generated numbers are studied using a probabilistic model to find an approximate solution to a numerical problem that would be difficult to solve by other methods.