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hill climbing

hill climbing is the alternative form of hillclimbing.

Meaning of hillclimbing

Noun

hillclimbing (uncountable)

  1. A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
  2. (general) The act of climbing a hill.
    • Some very fine hillclimbing now followed, with an acceleration to 35 m.p.h. on the 1 on 129 grade—an output of about 1,240 d.h.p.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 6
  3. A simple form of optimization that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find a better solution by incrementally changing a single element of the solution.

Questions about hill climbing

What is hill climbing the alternative form of?
Hill climbing is the alternative form of hillclimbing.

Words near hill climbing in the dictionary

  1. hill chain
  2. hill chains
  3. Hill Chorlton
  4. Hill City
  5. hill climb
  6. hill climbing
  7. hill climbs
  8. Hill Country
  9. hill country blues
  10. Hill County
  11. Hill criteria

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