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Meaning of hillclimbing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
    uncountable
  2. The act of climbing a hill.
    general, uncountable
  3. A simple form of optimization that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find a better solution by incrementally changing a single element of the solution.
    uncountable

Examples

“Some very fine hillclimbing now followed, with an acceleration to 35 m.p.h. on the 1 on 129 grade—an output of about 1,240 d.h.p.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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