单词 | heuristic |
释义 | heuristic —heuristically, adv. /hyoo ris"tik/ or, often, /yoo-/, adj. 1. serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation. 2. encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method. 3. of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods. 4. Computers , Math. pertaining to a trial-and-error method of problem solving used when an algorithmic approach is impractical. n. 5. a heuristic method of argument. 6. the study of heuristic procedure. [1815-25; < NL heuristicus, equiv. to Gk heur(ískein) to find out, discover + L -isticus -ISTIC] |
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