meaning of heuristic

1. Serving to discover or find out.
2. heuristic 1. A rule of thumb, simplification, or educated guess that reduces or limits the search for solutions in domains that are difficult and poorly understood. Unlike algorithms, heuristics do not guarantee optimal, or even feasible, solutions and are often used with no theoretical guarantee. 2. approximation algorithm.
3. a commonsense rule or set of rules intended to increase the probability of solving some problem

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