gedankenexperiment
gedankenexperiment noun: thought experiment.
Noun
gedankenexperiment (plural gedankenexperiments)
- thought experiment
- So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores?2005 January 6, Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, retrieved 04 Feb 2012
- John told her about his dissertation, about the equations he had concocted from a gedanken experiment. "What's a gedanken experiment?" she asked him. / "It's where you just think an experiment, but you don't actually do it, you just think it through," he told her.2005 Aug, Eugene Mirabelli, “The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 109, number 2, page 143
Forms of gedankenexperiment
| plural | gedankenexperiments |
|---|---|
| alternative form | gedanken experiment |
| alternative form | Gedanken experiment |
| alternative form | Gedankenexperiment |
Origin of gedankenexperiment
From German Gedankenexperiment (“thought experiment”), from Gedanke (“thought”) + Experiment (“experiment”).
Questions about gedankenexperiment
- What does gedankenexperiment mean?
- Gedankenexperiment means thought experiment.
- What part of speech is gedankenexperiment?
- Gedankenexperiment is a noun.
- What is the plural of gedankenexperiment?
- The plural of gedankenexperiment is gedankenexperiments.
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