heuristic
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8.2
- adjective
- /hjʊˈrɪstɪk/
- Specialized
:
heurístico
- Teachers often use heuristic strategies to help students discover concepts on their own.
- heuristic value
- heuristic device
- heuristic model
We understand what's happening in this kind of heuristic way.
- We understand what's happening in this kind of heuristic way.
- He still has his heuristic insight, but he has vastly augmented computational powers.
- My understanding is this heuristic argument, it also predicts that there are no large perfect numbers, even or odd.
- Now the design direction for this collection was heuristic, geometric and versatile.
- So that's why I say this is a little bit heuristic argument.
- OK, so you know, it's, it's all, it's all heuristic, right?
Examples
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However, we have developed a heuristic method for drift elimination.
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Science and medical teachers must recognize the heuristic value in such endeavors.
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Further investigation into the issue of heuristic seeding may be of value to the forest planning community.
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Several recent research publications have demonstrated improvements in the use of heuristic methods in forest planning.
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Like Hart, we offer our law as a heuristic device and not as a precise mathematical model.
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Adopting oral traditions as heuristic devices for interpreting past peoples has been both criticized and supported.
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Predicting yields, an important objective of fishery research, is obtained by structural and heuristic models.
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Using a heuristic approach, she learned to solve complex problems through trial and error.
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His research emphasizes the heuristic methods that enable learning through exploration and personal experience.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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6.9
Using a set of steps or rules to solve a problem, often by a computer
Compounds
- Specialized
A computer program that uses simple rules to find good solutions when checking every choice is impossible
A simple practical way to decide what to do from experience to solve problems faster
How Heuristic
Surface Forms
Morphology
heuristic = heur + ic
The combining form 'heur-' is not a standalone English word and the suffix '-ic' does not make the meaning guessable to an average learner, so the sense must be learned rather than derived from parts.
Etymology
Heuristic as an adjective comes from the old Greek verb heuriskein, which means 'to find' and is the root of the shout eureka ('I have found it'). So a heuristic approach helps you 'find' solutions by trying things and using experience instead of following strict rules.