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heuristic (adj.)
"serving to discover or find out," 1821, irregular formation from Greek
heuretikos
"inventive," related to
heuriskein
"to find" (from PIE
*were-
"to find;" cf. Old Irish
fuar
"I have found") +
-istic
. As a noun, from 1860.
