Monte Carlo

See also: Monte-Carlo and Montecarlo

English

Etymology

Monte (“mountain”) + Carlo (“Charles/Carl”). Named after Charles III of Monaco.

Proper noun

Monte Carlo

1. A part of Monaco famous for its casinos.
2. (statistics) Ellipsis of Monte Carlo method.
   • 2004 July 27, F. Keith Barker et al., “Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation”, in PNAS, page 11040, column 2:

     The probability density of the Bayesian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Monte Carlo algorithm
• Monte Carlo fallacy
• Monte Carlo integration
• Monte Carlo method
• Monte Carlo option model

Translations

a part of Monaco

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒙特卡洛 (zh) (Méngtèkǎluò)

• French: Monte-Carlo (fr) m
• German: Monte-Carlo n
• Japanese: モンテカルロ (Montekaruro)
• Korean: 몬테카를로 (Montekareullo)
• Ligurian: Mont-Carlu
• Occitan: Montcarles
• Russian: Монте-Ка́рло m (Montɛ-Kárlo)
• Spanish: Montecarlo (es) m
• Uyghur: مونتە كارلو (monte karlo)

Monte Carlo method — see Monte Carlo method

Noun

Monte Carlo (plural Monte Carlos)

1. A commonly served drink consisting of beer and grenadine.
2. An informal dance competition, where contestants in one quarter of the floor are eliminated by a randomly drawn card representing the corner.

Translations

a drink

an informal dance competition

Further reading

• Monte Carlo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Proper noun

Monte Carlo

1. A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil