English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -iːkə

Interjection

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.

Quotations

• 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
• 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

Derived terms

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

Translations

Places

In the United States

Cities and towns

• Eureka, California
• Eureka, Illinois
• Eureka, Indiana
• Eureka, Kansas
• Eureka, Louisiana, a community east of Frost Town on route 837.
• Eureka, Missouri
• Eureka, Montana
• Eureka, Nevada
• Eureka, North Carolina
• Eureka, South Dakota
• Eureka, Utah
• Eureka, Wisconsin
• Eureka Springs, Arkansas
• Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
• Eureka Township, Michigan
• Eureka Township, Minnesota
• Eureka Valley (San Francisco), California, a neighborhood
• Eureka Valley, Inyo County, California

Outside the United States

• Eureka, Nova Scotia in Canada
• Eureka, Nunavut in Canada
• Eureka Sound, Nunavut, Canada
• Eureka, Transvaal in South Africa
• Eureka, Waikato in New Zealand
• Eureka, New South Wales in Australia
• Eureka Pass, a pass on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

Historical

• Eureka (ferryboat), an 1890-built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
• Eureka Stockade, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Eureka Flag, a symbol of the Eureka Stockade

Science and technology

• 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
• EUREKA, the pan-European research and development inter-governmental initiative
• Eureka 147, also known as the Digital Audio Broadasting (DAB) system
• Eureka beacon, used by Allies during World War II to guide paratroopers to drop zones
• Eureka (Equation Solver), software first marketed by Borland in 1987; also known as Mercury; similar to TK Solver
• Eureka (magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
• Eureka (science magazine), published by Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishat, Kerala, India
• Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
• Eureka! (computer program), a disk-catalogue program for the CP/M operating system
• Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
• The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
• EURECA, a European scientific satellite.

Entertainment

• Eureka: A Prose Poem, 1848 essay by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album) whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
• Eureka (musical), an Australian musical by M.M. Gordon and M. M. Harvey, based on a book by Gale Edwards and John Senczuk, about the 1854 goldminers' uprising
• Eureka, an American singer and Li'l Kim impersonator
• "Eureka! A California Adventure Parade" was a parade at Disney's California Adventure park in 2001-2002

Film and television

• Eureka (TV series), 2006–, on the Sci Fi Channel (U.S.), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
• Eureka! (TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series produced by TVOntario
• Eureeka's Castle, a TV series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
• Eureka Seven, a mecha anime by the BONES studio - Using the Japanese Alphabet, the pronunciation of the word as it is used in the anime is "Eh-oo-re(le)-ka"

• Eureka, a main character in Eureka Seven.

• Eureka Maru, a fictional starship in the TV series Andromeda
• Eureka (1984 film), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
• Eureka Stockade (film), 1949, Australia. Directed by Harry Watt
• Eureka (2000 film), directed by Shinji Aoyama
• Eureka (2006 film), produced by Shell Films
• Eureka (cable network), a German cable news network that broadcast in the 1980s
• Eureka (BBC), a 1985 cult BBC children's TV series about science and inventiveness, with Wilf Lunn BBC link
• Eureka! (Irish TV), an Irish Language quiz show for primary school students, broadcast on RTÉ in the mid-1990s

Other meanings

• Eureka Tower, a 91-storey residential building in Melbourne, Australia
• Eureka (Literary Magazine), the literary magazine of Eureka College
• Eureka (Malayalam magazine), a Malayalam science magazine for children
• Eureka (French automobile), a French automobile
• Eureka (1900 automobile), an American automobile
• Eureka (1907 automobile), an American automobile
• Eureka (1974 Australian kit car), an Australian automobile
• Eureka! (bplan competition), India's largest business plan competition conducted by The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay
• Eureka, Dorothy Gale's cat, so named because Uncle Henry found her.
• Eureka (vacuum cleaner)/The Eureka Company, a brand of vacuum and other floor care products currently owned by the parent company AB Electrolux.

Games

• Eureka (online game), by Free Fall Associates
• Eureka, a non-licensed Lineage 2 game server running at 7X speed at L2-Paradise, voluntarily closed when L2Extreme shut down.
• Eureka! (computer game), a text adventure