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hillclimbing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hill-climb-ing
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.

Uncountable

noun

The act of climbing a hill.

Uncountable

noun

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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From hill + climbing.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hill climbing (alternative) hill-climbing (alternative)

Questions

What does hillclimbing mean?
A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
Where does hillclimbing come from?
From hill + climbing.

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