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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /jəˈɹiː.kə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /jʊˈɹiː.kə/
• 韻: -iːkə

間投詞

eureka!

1. An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
   • 1821, Byron, Don Juan:

     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.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."

   • 1970, Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, The Last of England:

     A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.

派生語

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

名詞

eureka (uncountable)

1. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”).

参考

• aha moment
• epiphany