a. 启发式的, 探索的

n. 启发式教育法

Heuristic \Heu*ris"tic\ (h[-u]*r[i^]s"t[i^]k), n.
1. A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.
[PJC]

2. A theory or approach which serves to promote discovery or
learning by encouraging experimentation.
[PJC]


Heuristic \Heu*ris"tic\ (h[-u]*r[i^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Gr.
e"yri`skein to discover.]
1. Serving to promote discovery or learning; -- used
especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new
ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their
own, especially by encouraging experimental and
trial-and-error methods for solving problems.
[PJC]

3. Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental
methods of learning and evaluation.
[PJC]

4. (Computers) Based on the use of an efficient trial-and
error method to search a space of possible solutions to a
problem, or to find an acceptable approximate solution,
when an exact algorithmic method is unavailable or too
time-consuming.
[PJC]