Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun heuristic_rule

1 sense of heuristic rule

Sense 1
heuristic, heuristic rule, heuristic program -- (a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem)
       => rule, formula -- ((mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials")