GROK

Grok

Grok is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, where it is defined as follows:

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grok

Verb

  1. To have or to have acquired 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).
  2. To fully and completely understand something in all its details and intricacies.
    • He groks Perl.
    • I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.


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