serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.

encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error

a heuristic teaching method.

of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods.

Computers, Mathematics . pertaining to a trial-and-error method of problem solving used when an algorithmic approach is impractical.

a heuristic method of argument.

the study of heuristic procedure.