thought experiment
Noun
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Noun
thought experiment (plural thought experiments)
- (physics, philosophy) An attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.
- French: exercice mental, expérience imaginaire, expérience de pensée
- German: Gedankenexperiment
- Italian: esperimento mentale
- Russian: мы́сленный экспериме́нт
- Spanish: experimento mental, experimento pensado
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