An initiative to encourage and assist market-driven collaborative research and development projects by organisations across Europe Members include the EU countries, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey and the European Commission
When we visited the Habersaats in California in the late 60's, I was reading place names on a road map of the state My cousin Jenny heard me read that and loudly questioned, "Eureka?"
Hardware search mechanism A eureka is like a barrier When all of the PEs are searching for something, the one that finds it posts an eureka that is visible to all of the other PEs The posting of the eureka stops the search
Someone might say `eureka' when they suddenly find or realize something, or when they solve a problem. `Eureka! I've got it!'. used to show how happy you are that you have discovered the answer to a problem, found something etc (heureka , said by the Greek scientist Archimedes when he discovered a method of testing the purity of gold)
The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed
a copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire
Eureka is a pan-European research program which was established in 1985 Its aim is to step up productivity and competitiveness for high-technology in Europe by promoting cooperation among businesses and research centers throughout the EEC
[ yu-'rE-k& ] (interjection.) 1603. From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heurēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heuriskō, “I find”).