On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:35:11 -0400, Bill M
wrote:

Tim Wescott wrote:

charge regulator IC's are kinda hard to grok when you're not firm on how
a diode works).


Help out an oldster. What the heck does "grok" mean?

-Bill

A word from Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel "Stranger in a Strange Land".
Rough meaning is to understand thoroughly and profoundly.

"As one character from Heinlein's novel says:

'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes
a part of the observed - to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in
group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion,
philosophy, and science - and it means as little to us (because we are
from Earth) as color means to a blind man. "

From:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212216,00.html

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
--
At the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
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