Rubric vs Heuristic - What's the difference?
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A heading in a book highlighted in red.
A title of a category or a class.
:* That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
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An established rule or custom, a guideline.
* Hook
* De Quincey
(education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
* Alexander Pope
Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
To adorn with red; to redden.
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
, 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.}}
As nouns the difference between rubric and heuristic
is that rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red while heuristic is a heuristic method.As adjectives the difference between rubric and heuristic
is that rubric is coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics while heuristic is relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.As a verb rubric
is to adorn with red; to redden.rubric
English
Alternative forms
* rubrick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics .
- Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
- (Cowper)
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?
Verb
- (Johnson)
External links
* *heuristic
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(wikipedia heuristic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation
