Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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heuristic \hyoo-RIS-tik\, adjective:
heuristic \hyoo-RIS-tik\, adjective:
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1. Serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
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.
3. Of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods.
4. Denoting a rule of thumb for solving a problem without the exhaustive application of an algorithm
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The B.O.'s heuristic style of his presidency continues to drag down the U.S. economy as well as the honor and prestige of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world; we are now the laughing stock amongst most all of the major and minor countries in the world; and now China and Russia are dumping the once great U.S. dollar in favor of their own currencies for their bilateral trade!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Heuristic stems from the Greek heur-, "to discover."
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