Heuristic is an English word with synonyms like algorithmic or rule. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Heuristic meaning
- That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; either not following or derived from any theory, or based on an advisedly oversimplified one.
- That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known algorithms that provide optimal solutions use too much time or resources, or else because there is no known algorithm that provides an optimal solution.
- That reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving.
Synonyms of Heuristic
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Using Heuristic
- The main meaning on this page is: That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; either not following or derived from any theory, or based on an advisedly oversimplified one. | That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known algorithms that provide optimal solutions use too much time or resources, or else because there is no known algorithm that provides an optimal solution. | That reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving.
- Useful related words include: trial-and-error, algorithmic, heuristic rule, heuristic program.
- Possible Dutch translations are: heuristisch.
- In the example corpus, heuristic often appears in combinations such as: of heuristic, the heuristic, as heuristic.
Context around Heuristic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Heuristic
- In this selection, "heuristic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, simple, front, availability, judging, rule and works stand out and add context to how "heuristic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a heuristic argument given and a probabilistic heuristic if one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "heuristic" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, abortive and acacia, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with heuristic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
More advanced types of antivirus detection solutions include “heuristic” and “behaviour” techniques. (12 words)
Typically, voters form a heuristic or shorthand summary in determining their political behaviour and voting choices. (16 words)
The confidence heuristic works, but that obviously does not imply that we should always believe confident people who speak first. (20 words)
A heuristic argument, given in the same paper, appears to suggest that there are infinitely many Carmichael numbers of order m, for any m. However, not a single Carmichael number of order 3 or above is known. (37 words)
As Lorentz later noted (1921, 1928), he considered the time indicated by clocks resting in the aether as "true" time, while local time was seen by him as a heuristic working hypothesis and a mathematical artifice. (36 words)
Assessment — pragmatic theory According to the pragmatic theory, citation a fallacy can in some instances be an error a fallacy, use of a heuristic (short version of an argumentation scheme) to jump to a conclusion. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
In an unordered list, one simple heuristic for decreasing average search time is the move-to-front heuristic, which simply moves an element to the beginning of the list once it is found.
Individuals can better overcome confirmation bias, groupthink and the availability heuristic (judging the likelihood of an event based on recall of similar events) by understanding and questioning their assumptions and beliefs.
More advanced types of antivirus detection solutions include “heuristic” and “behaviour” techniques.
Adaptive query execution typically takes as input a query plan that is produced as the result of heuristic/rule-based optimization, and then reorders operators or replans subqueries based on run-time performance.
So give us some examples of heuristic or heuristical thinking when it when it was at play and when it was not.
It should really be “Duverger’s reasonably reliable empirical regularity” and not “Duverger’s law,” but it’s a pretty useful heuristic.
The confidence heuristic works, but that obviously does not imply that we should always believe confident people who speak first.
Typically, voters form a heuristic or shorthand summary in determining their political behaviour and voting choices.
A heuristic argument, given in the same paper, appears to suggest that there are infinitely many Carmichael numbers of order m, for any m. However, not a single Carmichael number of order 3 or above is known.
Although it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected published models.
A mathematically rigorous convergence analysis of an iterative method is usually performed; however, heuristic -based iterative methods are also common.
An early description of the system Pople H, Heuristic methods for imposing structure on ill-structured problems, in AI in Medicine, Szolovits (ed.
Another venue combining the existing exact solutions with approximated and heuristic models was explored in the work Hydrodynamics of Flows with Free Boundaries Logvinovich, GV (1969) Hydrodynamics of Flows with Free Boundaries.
A probabilistic heuristic If one considers only the odd numbers in the sequence generated by the Collatz process, then each odd number is on average 3/4 of the previous one.
A quick heuristic that is often used (but not always true) is "one gene, one protein" meaning a singular gene codes for a singular protein type in a cell (enzyme, transcription factor, etc.).
As a matter of fact, the term "algorithm" was not commonly extended to approximation algorithms until later; the Christofides algorithm was initially referred to as the Christofides heuristic.
As a methodological and heuristic device According to George Marcus, Michael Fischer, and Sam Bohart, :20th century social and cultural anthropology has promised its still largely Western readership enlightenment on two fronts.
A self-organizing list rearranges its nodes based on some heuristic which reduces search times for data retrieval by keeping commonly accessed nodes at the head of the list.
As Lorentz later noted (1921, 1928), he considered the time indicated by clocks resting in the aether as "true" time, while local time was seen by him as a heuristic working hypothesis and a mathematical artifice.
Assessment — pragmatic theory According to the pragmatic theory, citation a fallacy can in some instances be an error a fallacy, use of a heuristic (short version of an argumentation scheme) to jump to a conclusion.
Common combinations with heuristic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of heuristic 5×
- the heuristic 5×
- as heuristic 5×
- and heuristic 5×
- heuristic for 4×
- heuristic which 3×
- heuristic or 3×
- heuristic value 3×
- heuristic routing 3×
- this heuristic 3×