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Etymology
From Gr. ευρηκα “I have found it” (1st person singular perfect of ευρίσκειν).

Pronunciation
rhymes|iːkə

Interjection
en-intj

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.

Quotations
1821: 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. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

Derived terms
eureka effect
eureka moment

Translations
trans-top|exclamation indicating sudden discovery
Chinese: 尤里卡 (yóulǐkǎ)
Finnish: heureka
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Russian: эврика (evríka)
Spanish: eureka
Swedish: heureka, eureka
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vi:eureka

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