| 1. | serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation. |
| 2. | encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method. |
| 3. | of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods. |
| 4. | Computers, Mathematics. pertaining to a trial-and-error method of problem solving used when an algorithmic approach is impractical. |
| 5. | a heuristic method of argument. |
| 6. | the study of heuristic procedure. |

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