semi-Markov process

== English == === Etymology === Named after Russian mathematician Andrey Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (1856—1922), who researched the processes. === Noun === semi-Markov process (plural semi-Markov processes) (mathematics, probability theory) A generalization of the Markov chain in which the distribution of the amount of time that the process spends in a given state is permitted to be nonexponentially (generally) distributed.