heuristichyoo-RIS-tik
adjective;
1.Serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
2.Encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error.
3.Of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods.
4.Denoting a rule of thumb for solving a problem without the exhaustive application of an algorithm