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heuristic | x |

As an adjective heuristic

is relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.

As a noun heuristic

is a heuristic method.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

heuristic

English

(wikipedia heuristic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.
  • (computing, of a method or algorithm) that solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Te Chiang Hu, Man-tak Shing, title=Combinatorial Algorithms citation
    • , passage=If a heuristic algorithm works for most of the input data or its maximum percentage error is tolerable, we may prefer the heuristic algorithm to an optimum algorithm that requires a long time.}}

    Derived terms

    * heuristically * heuristical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heuristic method.
  • The art of applying heuristic methods.

    • x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----