grok
verbEtymology
Coined by American author and aeronautical engineer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961 in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein invented the word for his fictitious Martian language. It is described as meaning “to drink” and, figuratively, “to drink in all available aspects of reality”, “to become one with the observed”. William Tenn later asked Heinlein if it could have been inspired by the term griggo, which featured in Tenn's Venus and the Seven Sexes (1949); Heinlein “looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) ‘It's possible, very possible.’”
Definitions
To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think…
To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
- In his movie—right right right—and they all grok over that. Grok―and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it.
To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
- I finally grok Perl.
- I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.
- Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school.
A generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI.
- Grok's responses were published after the update and came just before the launch of Grok 4, which is expected to launch with a livestream on Wednesday.
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To use or create with the Grok chatbot.
- I Grokked a quick summary of a long article so I didn't have to read it.
- Now "I Grokked it" is more legitimate than "I Googled it"
- Everything will be Grokked
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for grok. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA