Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gedankenexperiment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gedanken-ex-per-i-ment
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

thought experiment

Example Sentences

"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?"
"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."

Etymology

From German Gedankenexperiment (“thought experiment”), from Gedanke (“thought”) + Experiment (“experiment”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Gedankenexperiment

Inflected Forms

gedankenexperiments (plural) gedanken experiment (alternative)

Questions

What does gedankenexperiment mean?: thought experiment
Where does gedankenexperiment come from?: It is traced to German.

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