hillclimbing
hillclimbing noun: a form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
Noun
hillclimbing (uncountable)
- A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
- 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
- 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.
Forms of hillclimbing
| alternative form | hill climbing |
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| alternative form | hill-climbing |
Origin of hillclimbing
From hill + climbing.
Questions about hillclimbing
- What does hillclimbing mean?
- Hillclimbing means a form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
- What part of speech is hillclimbing?
- Hillclimbing is a noun.
Words near hillclimbing in the dictionary
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