eureka
eureka Lexical Profile
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• interjection
Used as a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something, or solves a difficult problem.
""Eureka!" she exclaimed as the final line of code compiled without a single error."
• noun
An exclamation or moment of triumph upon making a sudden discovery, breakthrough, or realization.
"Years of painstaking laboratory trials finally culminated in a quiet eureka for the research team."
American A port city and the county seat of Humboldt County in northern California, located on Humboldt Bay and known for its historic Victorian architecture and proximity to coastal redwood forests.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek 'heúrēka' ('I have found it'), the first-person singular perfect indicative active of 'heurískein' ('to find'). According to classical legend, the mathematician Archimedes shouted the word after stepping into a bath and suddenly realizing that the volume of irregular objects could be measured by water displacement.