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What (who) is Pathological - definition
INFORMAL MATHEMATICAL CONCEPT OF AN OBJECT THAT BEHAVES IN AN EXCEPTIONAL WAY
Well-behaved; Pathological example; Well behaved; Pathological function; Bad behaviour (mathematics); Bad behavior (mathematics)
pathological
(US also pathologic)
¦ adjective
1. involving, caused by, or of the nature of a disease.
2. informal compulsive: a pathological gambler.
3. relating to pathology.
Derivatives
pathologically adverb
pathological
1.
You describe a person or their behaviour as pathological when they behave in an extreme and unacceptable way, and have very powerful feelings which they cannot control.
He's a pathological liar.
...a pathological fear of snakes.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
Pathological means relating to pathology or illness. (MEDICAL)
...pathological conditions in animals.
ADJ
pathological
1. [scientific computation ] Used of a data set that is grossly
atypical of normal expected input, especially one that exposes
a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using. An
algorithm that can be broken by pathological inputs may still
be useful if such inputs are very unlikely to occur in
practice.
2. When used of test input, implies that it was purposefully
engineered as a worst case. The implication in both senses is
that the data is spectacularly ill-conditioned or that someone
had to explicitly set out to break the algorithm in order to
come up with such a crazy example.
3. Also said of an unlikely collection of circumstances. "If
the network is down and comes up halfway through the execution
of that command by root, the system may just crash." "Yes,
but that's a pathological case." Often used to dismiss the
case from discussion, with the implication that the
consequences are acceptable, since they will happen so
infrequently (if at all) that it doesn't seem worth going to
the extra trouble to handle that case (see sense 1).
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Wikipedia
Pathological (mathematics)
In mathematics, when a mathematical phenomenon runs counter to some intuition, then the phenomenon is sometimes called pathological. On the other hand, if a phenomenon does not run counter to intuition, it is sometimes called well-behaved. These terms are sometimes useful in mathematical research and teaching, but there is no strict mathematical definition of pathological or well-behaved.
Examples of use of Pathological
1. "She developed serious problems including a pathological grief reaction.
2. Dr E Moran Specialist adviser on pathological gambling, the Royal College of Psychiatrists
3. Culture informs our decisions on what we consider normal." "If we understand that our definition of pathological isn‘t pathological in other countries, we can make better decisions on when to treat, especially with medications," she added.
4. In his world, religious faith is a pathological condition that threatens us normal people.
5. His legal team claims Basinger has a "pathological need" to distance Ireland from her father.