English to English
heuristic
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adjective (a)
- of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- Serving to discover or find out.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem(noun.cognition)source: wordnet30