LATERAL THINKING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a heuristic for solving problems
   • you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on
   Hypernyms(s) lateral thinking is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • heuristic (what does heuristic mean?)
   • heuristic rule (what does heuristic rule mean?)
   • heuristic program (what does heuristic program mean?)