Meaning & use
grok
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To understand something so thoroughly and intuitively that it feels like complete, instinctive comprehension.
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It took a while, but she finally grokked how the recursive function worked.
You won't truly grok the algorithm until you've traced through it by hand.
A note on using this word
Coined in Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and later adopted by programmers and tech culture; still an informal word, best suited to casual writing.
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