hillclimbing

See also: hill climbing

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

hill +‎ climbing

Noun

hillclimbing (uncountable)

  1. (sports) A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
  2. (general) The act of climbing a hill.
    • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 6:
      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.
  3. (mathematics) 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.
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