English Dictionary

heuristic

IPA（発音記号）

/hjuˈɹɪstɪk/

形容詞

前置詞句 手法・アルゴリズム 項

(of an approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery) That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; not following or derived from any theory.

日本語の意味

理論に基づかず、実践的な方法を用いて問題解決、学習、発見を行う手法。 / 最適または完璧な結果を保証しない、経験や直感に基づいた近似的なアプローチ。

The team adopted a heuristic approach to debugging the complex software, accepting that it might not find the optimal solution every time.

チームは複雑なソフトウェアのデバッグに経験則に基づく手法を採用し、それが常に最適な解を見つけるとは限らないことを受け入れた。

意味（1）

(of an approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery) That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; not following or derived from any theory.

"The heuristic appraisal is the 'identification and evaluation of hints and clues that can provide direction to inquiry in the sometimes large gap between the extremes of complete knowledge and complete ignorance'”.

意味（2）

(computing, of a method or algorithm) That solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.

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.

意味（3）

(of an argument) 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.

more heuristic （ comparative ）

most heuristic （ superlative ）