eureka
IPA: jʊrˈikʌ
noun
- Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)
- A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
- A small suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
- A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A small research base in Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
- A settlement in Waikato district, New Zealand.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city, the county seat of Humboldt County, in northern California.
- A ghost town in Nevada County, California.
- A mining ghost town in San Juan County, Colorado.
- A city, the county seat of Woodford County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana, also known as Geiberson.
- An unincorporated community in Luce Township, Spencer County, Indiana.
- A city, the county seat of Greenwood County, Kansas.
- A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri.
- A town in Lincoln County, Montana.
- An unincorporated town and census-designated place, the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada.
- A town in Wayne County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Warrington Township, Bucks County and Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina.
- A city in McPherson County, South Dakota.
- A ghost town in Crockett County, Texas.
- A ghost town in Franklin County, Texas.
- A tiny city in Navarro County, Texas.
- A small city in Juab County, Utah.
- An unincorporated community in Walla Walla County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Pleasants County, West Virginia.
- A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Rushford, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Eureka Township.
- A given name, like for the protagonists of Eureka's Castle or Eureka Seven.
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Examples of "eureka" in Sentences
- It was the eureka moment.
- Hall is the founder and CEO of the Eureka
- The Federaton flag predates the Eureka flag.
- Once, the Eureka Hotel provided a welcome respite.
- Once at the top the Eureka Hotel provided a welcome respite.
- From his introduction to the booklet accompanying the Eureka
- Many of the leaders at the Eureka Stockade were Chartist members.
- The area is in the 95503 zip code and part of unincorporated Eureka.
- He was the winner of the 2005 Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research.
- BLOODSWORTH: Well, I had what they call a eureka moment at that time.
- The Eureka Classis was part of the Reformed Church in the United States.
- Q: Have you ever had any "eureka" moments while studying animal behavior?
- Interviewed at his office in Madison, Halzen said he's forgotten his "eureka" moment back in 1987.
- My teacher's remark undoubtedly stuck in the mind, but I'm not sure if there was a single "eureka" moment so much as a gradual snowballing of interest.
- I think the greatest single "eureka" moment was deciding that this novel can be written in an epistolary form, even though I "just" did that with The Red Tree.
- "The 'eureka' moment was when I realized that the head is very well protected because the scalp prevents rotation by sliding over the skull on impact," he says.
- I never experienced a "eureka" moment, but various experiences and impressions began to flow together, like tributary streams into a river, and I started writing.
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