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lateral thinking

DEFINITIONS OF: lateral thinking

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n a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on

Type of:
heuristic, heuristic program, heuristic rule
a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
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