eureka
interjectionnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//jəˈɹiː.kə//
- United States//jʊˈɹiː.kə//
An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
interjection
- 1
An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
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.
"Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."
A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.
noun
- 1
Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”).
eureka · An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
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