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heuristic
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation [ant: algorithmic ] n. a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem [syn: heuristic rule , heuristic program ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to general strategy or methods for solving problems. 2 (context computing of a method or algorithm English) that solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution. n. 1 A heuristic method. 2 The art of applying ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science , artificial intelligence , and mathematical optimization , a heuristic is a technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"serving to discover or find out," 1821, irregular formation from Greek heuretikos "inventive," related to heuriskein "to find" (from PIE *were- (2) "to find;" cognate with Old Irish fuar "I have found") + -istic . As a noun, from 1860.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heuristic \Heu*ris"tic\ (h[-u]*r[i^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Gr. e"yri`skein to discover.] Serving to promote discovery or learning; -- used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences. Serving to stimulate ...
Usage examples of heuristic.
At intervals, heuristic nets hung from the high ceiling, but they were empty.
I believe they are transferred to the heuristic nets for final somata-honing.
They heard the warning from Jura then and, leaving their speculation pooled with the heuristic net in the ruddy light of the lab-orb, headed for the door.
Then she spotted the heuristic net that had come loose from its ceiling moorings and went over to pick it up.
Sahor could see the bits of dried blood and bone that had not yet been absorbed by the semi-sentient heuristic computer network.
He was disgusted at what he saw: the coffinlike biochambers, more heuristic nets hung from the ceiling like ominous webs.
She broke away from him, spread her wings, and, lofted into the dense, stultifying atmosphere of the lab-orb, returned the defective heuristic net to its circuit clamps high above his head.
Progress has been made, most particularly in the area of pattern recognition, which some bionicists and heuristic programmers feel may well be at the heart of human thought and intelligence.
Among the striking developments are the learning machines such as the perceptrons and the heuristic programs for playing games, proving mathematical theorems, analyzing geometrical figures.
While this approach has only dealt so far with simple problems, it seems, nonetheless, to many, to be far more promising than bionics or heuristic programming.
The techniques included mnemonic treatments, info implants, subliminal tutelary programs, and heuristic regimens.
I know, a certain large quantity of parallel-processed on-off switches in heuristic conformations.
Sensualism, therefore, at least as a regulative hypothesis, if not as a heuristic principle.
I thought of all the experimental, heuristic, and botched compositions that kept him company over long years, and how, whatever the orchestration, form, choice of language, all pieces amounted to love songs, not just to a lost woman, but to a world whose pattern he could not help wanting to save.
Knowing that she was a heuristic construct, refined by feedback through measuring his pupillary dilation, did not make the longing less.