English Explanatory Dictionary

hillclimbing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
  2. The act of climbing a hill.
  3. A simple form of optimization that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find a better solution by incrementally changing a single element of the solution.

Word forms

hillclimbing hill climbing hill-climbing

Etymology

From hill + climbing.

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