hillclimbing

alternative hill climbing · alternative hill-climbing

1. uncountablehobbiesA form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
2. generaluncountableThe act of climbing a hill.

   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.

   1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 6

3. uncountablemathematicsA 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.