eureka moment
yoo-REE-kuh MOH-ment
jʊˈriːkɑ ˈmoʊməntListen
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a sudden and exhilarating realisation of the solution to a problem or the answer to a question; a moment of flash insight in which something previously obscure becomes immediately clear; from the Greek heureka (I have found it), the exclamation attributed to Archimedes when he realised, while stepping into a bath, how to measure the volume of an irregular solid by water displacement; eureka moments are celebrated in popular accounts of scientific discovery but research shows that most breakthroughs result from sustained, systematic work rather than single moments of spontaneous insight
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