nondeterministic
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A situation or process where there isn't just one possible outcome, and it's hard to predict what will happen.
The game has a nondeterministic element, so you can't be sure what will happen next.
In math or logic, when something can't be clearly true or false because it depends on different possible values.
The problem is nondeterministic, so the answer could be different depending on the variable.