"thought experiment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: thought experiments [plural]
Etymology: A calque of German Gedankenexperiment. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|Gedankenexperiment|nocap=1}} calque of German Gedankenexperiment Head templates: {{en-noun}} thought experiment (plural thought experiments)
  1. (physics, philosophy) An attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination. Wikipedia link: thought experiment Categories (topical): Philosophy, Physics Derived forms: zombie thought experiment Translations (attempt to solve a problem using human imagination): 思想實驗 (Chinese Mandarin), 思想实验 (sīxiǎng shíyàn) (Chinese Mandarin), myšlenkový experiment [masculine] (Czech), tankeeksperiment [neuter] (Danish), mõtteline eksperiment (Estonian), ajatuskoe (Finnish), exercice mental [masculine] (French), expérience imaginaire [feminine] (French), expérience de pensée [feminine] (French), Gedankenexperiment [neuter] (German), gondolatkísérlet (Hungarian), esperimento mentale [masculine] (Italian), 思考実験 (shikō jikken) (alt: しこうじっけん) (Japanese), tankeeksperiment [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), tankeeksperiment [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), eksperyment myślowy [masculine] (Polish), experiment mintal [neuter] (Romanian), experiment de gândire [neuter] (Romanian), experiment intelectic [neuter] (Romanian), мы́сленный экспериме́нт (mýslennyj eksperimént) [masculine] (Russian), experimento mental [masculine] (Spanish), experimento pensado (Spanish), tankeexperiment [neuter] (Swedish)

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