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Definition: Gestalt |
GestaltNoun1. A configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gestalt" was first used: 1922. (references) |
Crosswords: Gestalt |
| English words defined with "gestalt": Gestalt psychology. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gestalt": Figural Aftereffect ♦ Gestalt method, Gestalt Therapy ♦ Perceptual Closure. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gestalt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (gestalt), German (build, character, diagram, figure, form, frame, guise, image, person, picture, representation, shape, stature), Hungarian (gestalt), Spanish (gestalt), Swedish (character, configuration, diagram, figure, form, guise, image, likeness, personage, picture, representation, shape). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Gestalt (1997) | |
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Business | By following the lead of Britain, KEPCO has decided to first restructure the generation units before privatizing them in order to procure as much money as possible from their sale (the rationale being that the gestalt of the Gencos is less than the sum of their individual parts). (references) | |
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| "Gestalt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Gestalt" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gestalt": Gestalt method ♦ gestalt psychology ♦ Gestalt Somatic method ♦ Gestalt Theory ♦ Gestalt Therapy. Additional references. | |
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Containing "gestalt": Bender-Gestalt Test. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "gestalt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjestalt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صورة (configuration, effigy, feature, form, idol, image, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, print, representation, reproduction, resemblance, shot, tableau, take), بنية (armature, build, construction, fabric, figure, format, formation, framework, make up, organism, structure, substructure, texture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | gestalt psychologie (gestalt psychology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gestaltpsykologi (Gestalt laws, Gestalt psychology, Gestaltism, morpho-psychology), a priori-metode (Gestalt method). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gestaltpsychologie (Gestalt laws, Gestalt psychology, Gestaltism, morpho-psychology), synthetische methode (Gestalt method), decuctieve methode (Gestalt method). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | gestalt (coherent perception), hahmo (coherent perception, figure, form, outline, shape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gestalt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gestalt (build, character, coherent perception, configuration, diagram, figure, form, frame, guise, image, person, picture, representation, shape, stature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστηματική μέθοδος (a priori method, Gestalt method), συνθετική μέθοδος (a priori method, Gestalt method), γκεσταλτισμός του Οιδίποδα (Gestalt laws, Gestalt psychology, Gestaltism), μορφική ψυχολογία του Οιδίποδα (Gestalt laws, Gestalt psychology, Gestaltism), μορφολογική ψυχολογία του Οιδίποδα (Gestalt laws, Gestalt psychology, Gestaltism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תב ית (figure, form, format, formation, image, mock up, model, mould, pattern, structure, type). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gestalt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gestalt (coherent perception), percezione coerente (coherent perception). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ゲー 差 (distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost, gain, gale, gay, gay bar, gay boy, Gay Lib, geopolitic, Gestapo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゲシュタルト . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estaltgay método sintético (a priori method, Gestalt method), método global (a priori method, Gestalt method). (various references) форма (build, chill, figure, form, forma, format, make, mode, mould, pattern, shape, state, type-form, uniform), шаблон (clip art, gauge, master form, model, mould, pattern, stencil, template, templet, wildcard). (various references) geštalt. (various references) gestalt (Gestalt laws, Gestalt psychology, Gestaltism), precepto coherente (coherent perception). (various references) gestaltning (coherent perception, configuration, conformation, creation, figuration, form, formation, shape), sammanhängande varseblivning (coherent perception). (various references) geştalt psikolojisi (gestalt psychology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | gestalt. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "gestalt": gestalten, gestaltist, gestaltists, gestalts. (additional references) | |
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"Gestalt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gastaldo, Gastil, Genstat, gesalt, gesamt, geshtalt, gestaet, gestald, gestaldt, gestaltz, gestalz, gestault, Gestel, Gestyl, Gstalt, Guastalla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: aglets, latest, lattes. | |
-2 letters: aglet, gales, gates, gelts, getas, latte, least, setal, slate, stage, stale, state, steal, stela, taels, tales, taste, tates, teals, teats, tesla, testa. | |
-3 letters: ages, ales, alts, ates, east, eats, egal, etas, gaes, gale, gals, gast, gate, gats, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, lags, lase, last, late, lats, leas, legs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: gantlets, gestalts. | |
+2 letters: gauntlets, gestalten, liftgates, litigates, plottages, tailgates, tangliest, tollgates, tutelages. | |
+3 letters: gastrulate, gestaltist, ghastliest, glutamates, gratulates, larghettos, litterbags, multistage, stalagmite, tailgaters. | |
+4 letters: alightments, allegrettos, altogethers, earthlights, egotistical, gastrulated, gastrulates, gestaltists, gestational, gesticulant, gesticulate, graptolites, legitimates, splattering, stalagmites, stalemating, straggliest, strangulate, strategical, tanglements, tautologies, telecasting, tetralogies. | |
+5 letters: agglutinates, aiguillettes, astringently, battlewagons, earsplitting, gesticulated, gesticulates, gesticulator, glutathiones, gratefullest, hematologist, hesitatingly, legitimators, metallurgist, nematologist, scatteringly, shatteringly, snaggleteeth, snaggletooth, stigmasterol, strangulated, strangulates, stringhalted, tagliatelles, telegraphist, teratologies, teratologist, tessellating, triangulates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 73 74 61 6C 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . ... - .- .-.. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e s t a l t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0073 0074 0061 006C 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718586677886 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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