Usually means: Testing solutions until one succeeds.
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Definitions from WordNet (trial-and-error)

adjective:  relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory ("They adopted a trial-and-error procedure")
adjective:  trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated ("He argued that all learning is a trial-and-error process that resembles biological evolution")


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