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eureka

yuh-REE-kuh
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An exclamation of triumph on making a discovery or solving a problem.
""Eureka!" she shouted, finally spotting the bug in the code."

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In plain EnglishWhat you shout when you suddenly figure something out.

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a eureka moment
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek heúrēka (\"I have found it!\"). Legend has it that the mathematician Archimedes shouted this after realising, while stepping into a bath, how to measure an object's density.

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