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exclamation
A cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something.
‘The answer hit me. ‘Eureka!’ I cried’as noun ‘there weren't many eurekas but science is moving steadily’as modifier ‘the eureka moment for him came when he was hill-walking’- ‘His suggestive techniques had begun to dethaw items that were permafrozen in my subconscious; a few such items bubbled up to the surface - eureka moments - much to my astonishment.’
- ‘The samples were also chemically analyzed, and - eureka!’
- ‘Then one day you have a eureka moment: two facts connect themselves in your mind in some way you've never thought of before.’
- ‘Robert discovers what happens when we have those eureka moments of original thought - and how to have more of them.’
- ‘‘I think the eureka moment is a bit of a myth,’ he said.’
- ‘There's nothing like the eureka moment of discovering something that no one knew before.’
- ‘That's handy because you never know when you'll be struck by a eureka moment.’
- ‘I don't know that there will have been a eureka moment for string theory in the same way, so that there will be a specific time, but it could well be that some of the ideas of string theory.’
- ‘I've always thought that people can achieve eureka moments by doodling.’
- ‘Well, I had what they call a eureka moment at that time.’
- ‘While trying to put myself into her frame of mind, a sudden and unprovoked eureka moment came over me.’
- ‘A few minutes later, as his story goes, he glanced at his full bookshelf and eureka!’
- ‘The novel thus can be alternately vague and eureka!’
- ‘I can immediately apply many of these eureka moments to my practise as a new media lecturer.’
- ‘As he claimed descent from kings, the priesthood, under the threat of being put to the sword, no doubt, confirmed his rights to the throne of Persia, and eureka!’
- ‘It looks like the place to nail down a place in the social network where resource sharing and eureka moments follow.’
- ‘As students began to understand the historical process and utilize it, questions were reflected in their eyes or discomfort in their body language and then, eureka!’
- ‘The technology made for some interesting eureka moments.’
- ‘So I decided to visit the Imperial War Museum and was invited into the private reading room to research the books and, eureka!’
- ‘How many of you have read a blog that: crystallises lots of thoughts and questions and uneases that have been whirling round in your head, makes you think eureka!’
noun
mass nountrademarkAn alloy of copper and nickel used for electrical filaments and resistance wire.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Greek heurēka ‘I have found it’ (from heuriskein ‘find’), said to have been uttered by Archimedes when he hit upon a method of determining the purity of gold. The noun dates from the early 20th century.
