Heuristic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem: "The historian discovers the past by the judicious use of such a heuristic device as the 'ideal type'” ( Karl J. Weintraub).
  • adj. Of or constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student.
  • adj. Computer Science Relating to or using a problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution of several found by alternative methods is selected at successive stages of a program for use in the next step of the program.
  • n. A heuristic method or process.
  • n. The study and application of heuristic methods and processes.
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  • adj. Relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.
  • adj. that solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.
  • n. A heuristic method.
  • n. The art of applying heuristic methods.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Serving to promote discovery or learning; -- used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences.
  • adj. Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their own, especially by encouraging experimental and trial-and-error methods for solving problems.
  • adj. Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental methods of learning and evaluation.
  • adj. Based on the use of an efficient trial-and error method to search a space of possible solutions to a problem, or to find an acceptable approximate solution, when an exact algorithmic method is unavailable or too time-consuming.
  • n. A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.
  • n. A theory or approach which serves to promote discovery or learning by encouraging experimentation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to find or discover.
  • n. Same as heuretic.
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  • adj. of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation
  • n. a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
    • Equivalent
    trial-and-error   
    Antonym
    non-heuristic   
    Form
    heuristically    heuristical   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hellenistic    Mechanistic    altruistic    anachronistic    antagonistic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    two-valued    steepest-descent    trial-and-error    subdiscipline    party-political   
     
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