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Heuristics in a sentence

• When analysts mistakenly trust their common sense and misconfirm an improbable problem, they fail to exploit heuristics as a last resource.2011, Gilbert Cockton, Alan Woolrych, “Understanding Inspection Methods: Lessons from an Assessment of Heuristic Evaluation”, in Ann…. From the entry misconfirm
• Good heuristics can reduce the time needed to solve problems by recognizing which possible approaches are unlikely to be successful.2009, Clapham, Christopher; James Nicholson; James R. Nicholson, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics. From the entry heuristics
• George Polya brought the notion of heuristics to a wide audience through his book How To Solve It.2009, Clapham, Christopher; James Nicholson; James R. Nicholson, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics. From the entry heuristics
• In force of its undecidable and holonic character, global sustainability can only be attained by resorting to suitable heuristics designed to guide global evolution.2005, Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa, Mario Abram, Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, →ISBN, page 601. From the entry holonic
• We used three search heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.2019 February 15, Boyd A. Mori [et al.], “A New Species of Contarinia Rondani (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that Induces Flower Galls on Canola…. From the entry parsimony

Meaning of heuristic

1. adjective That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; either not following or derived from any theory, or based on an advisedly oversimplified one.
2. adjective That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known algorithms that provide optimal solutions use too much time or resources, or else because there is no known algorithm that provides an optimal solution.
3. adjective 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.

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What is the plural of heuristic?

The plural of heuristic is heuristics.

Is heuristic countable?

Heuristic is a countable noun.