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As an adjective, heuristic (pronounced from the Greek "heuriskein" meaning "to discover") pertains to the process of gaining knowledge or some desired result by intelligent guesswork rather than by following some preestablished formula. (Heuristic can be contrasted with algorithmic.)
a heuristic is a specific rule-of-thumb or argument derived from experience
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based on wild guesswork, and prone to error
That problem is too hard, let's just make a heuristic for it.
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a heuristic process or method.

the study and use of heuristic techniques.
Bill did that heuristically
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