Word.ws English Dictionary

thought experiment

thought experiment noun: an attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.

Noun

thought experiment (plural thought experiments)

  1. An attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.

thought experiment meaning in Tamil

thought experiment in Tamil

சிந்தனைச் சோதனை

Forms of thought experiment

pluralthought experiments

Origin of thought experiment

A calque of German Gedankenexperiment.

Words formed from thought experiment

Questions about thought experiment

What does thought experiment mean?
Thought experiment means an attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.
What is thought experiment in Tamil?
Thought experiment in Tamil is சிந்தனைச் சோதனை. See Thought experiment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is thought experiment?
Thought experiment is a noun.
What is the plural of thought experiment?
The plural of thought experiment is thought experiments.

Words near thought experiment in the dictionary

  1. thought collectives
  2. thought control
  3. thought criminal
  4. thought criminals
  5. thought echo
  6. thought experiment
  7. thought experiments
  8. thought for oneself
  9. thought good
  10. thought leader
  11. thought leaders

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thought experiment (page history and authors); thought experiment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thought experiment.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thought_experiment. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.