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Heuristic vs Found - What's the difference?

heuristic | found |

As nouns the difference between heuristic and found

is that heuristic is a heuristic method while found is food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

As an adjective heuristic

is relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.

As a verb found is

(find) or found can be to begin building or found can be to melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.

heuristic

English

(wikipedia heuristic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.
  • (computing, of a method or algorithm) that solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Te Chiang Hu, Man-tak Shing, title=Combinatorial Algorithms citation
    • , passage=If a heuristic algorithm works for most of the input data or its maximum percentage error is tolerable, we may prefer the heuristic algorithm to an optimum algorithm that requires a long time.}}

    Derived terms

    * heuristically * heuristical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heuristic method.
  • The art of applying heuristic methods.

    • found

    English

    Etymology 1

    see find.

    Noun

  • Food and lodging, board.
    • {{quote-book
    , year=1872 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=James De Mille , title=The Cryptogram , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=I'll only give you the usual payment--say five hundred dollars a year, and found'." / "And--what?" / "' Found --that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (find)
    • Derived terms
    * found footage * lost and found

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To begin building.
  • To start some type of organization or company.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded . …”}}
    Related terms
    * foundation * founder

    Synonyms

    * (to start organization) establish

    Antonyms

    * (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolish

    References

    * Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) fondre.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  • To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
  • * Milton
    • Whereof to found their engines.
    Related terms
    * foundry

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms