eureka
exclamation /juˈriːkə/
/juˈriːkə/
- used to show pleasure at having found something, especially the answer to a problemWord Originearly 17th cent.: from Greek heurēka ‘I have found it’ (from heuriskein ‘find’), said to have been uttered by Archimedes when he hit upon a method of determining the purity of gold.