eureka

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jəˈɹiːkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /juˈɹiːkə/

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• Rhymes: -iːkə

eureka

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
   • 1821 Byron, Don Juan, 1821

     Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess.

   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     "Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."

   • 1970 Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

     A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.

• eureka effect
• eureka moment
• Eureka Springs

eureka (uncountable)

1. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)

• aha moment
• epiphany

• heureka

Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌœy̯ˈreːkaː/, /øːˈreːkaː/

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• Hyphenation: eu‧re‧ka

eureka

1. eureka

Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὕρηκᾰ (heúrēka).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw.re.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛwreka
• Hyphenation: èu‧re‧ka

eureka

1. eureka

• IPA^(key): /euˈɾeka/ [eu̯ˈɾe.ka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: eu‧re‧ka

eureka

1. eureka

• “eureka”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014