grok

English - Turkish

Definition of grok in English Turkish dictionary

Sezgisel olarak ve/veya empati kurarak anlamak

Smith had been aware of the doctors but had grokked that their intentions were benign.

Kavramak

English - English

Definition of grok in English English dictionary

To have an intuitive understanding of; to know (something) without having to think (such as knowing the number of objects in a collection without needing to count them: see subitize)

To fully and completely understand something in all its details and intricacies

He groks Perl.

To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy

{f} (Informal) understand thoroughly in an intuitive way, understand in an exhaustive manner

To have an intuitive understanding of; to know (something) without having to think (such as knowing the number of objects in a collection without needing to count them)

Etymology

() Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land in which the word is described as being from the word for to drink and, figuratively, "to drink in all available aspects of reality", "to become one with the observed" in Heinlein's fictitious Martian language.

Tenses

grokking, grokked