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of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithmOpposite heuristicSimilar recursive

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algorithmic adjective

1. of or pertaining to an algorithm. recursive

2. definitively solvable by a finite number of steps; — said of mathematical or logical problems. Contrasted with heuristic.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5