"figure out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-us-figure out.ogg [US] Forms: figures out [present, singular, third-person], figuring out [participle, present], figured out [participle, past], figured out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} figure out (third-person singular simple present figures out, present participle figuring out, simple past and past participle figured out)
  1. (informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. Tags: informal Translations (come to understand): deduir (Catalan), 弄清楚 (nòng qīngchǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), finde ud af (Danish), uitvogelen (Dutch), er achter komen (Dutch), ontcijferen (Dutch), doorhebben (Dutch), tajuta (Finnish), hoksata (Finnish), selvittää (Finnish), cerner (French), comprender (Galician), captar (Galician), adiviñar (Galician), darse conta (Galician), herausfinden (German), βγάζω νόημα (vgázo nóima) (Greek), הֵבִין (Hebrew), מצא תשובה (Hebrew), rájön (Hungarian), mengerti (Indonesian), menemukan (Indonesian), menemukan solusi (Indonesian), scoprire (Italian), rendersi conto (Italian), dedurre (Italian), finne ut (Norwegian Bokmål), descobrir (Portuguese), deduzir (Portuguese), entender (Portuguese), dar-se conta (Portuguese), разбира́ться (razbirátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), разобра́ться (razobrátʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), постига́ть (postigátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), пости́гнуть (postígnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), пости́чь (postíčʹ) [perfective] (Russian), deducir (Spanish), darse cuenta (Spanish), descubrir (Spanish), lista ut (english: more sly) (Swedish), klura ut (english: more problem-oriented) (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-figure_out-en-verb-vZEhz3jO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 81 19 Disambiguation of 'come to understand': 98 2
  2. (informal) To calculate. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-figure_out-en-verb-mlpVUEXq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: reason out

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.