Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Technical jargon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun technical jargon incomprehensible to non-specialists; -- sometimes used derogatorily of discussions using unnecessarily technical terminology and intended to impress or confuse, rather than inform, the listener.
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- noun
Technical orscientific language used in fiction to convey afalse impression of meaningful technical or scientific content. - noun From the point of view of the
layperson , technical and scientific literature not understood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the fantasy fan insists that all that "technobabble" is what's wrong with sf, doesn't understand that the explanation of things, events, inventions, is a celebration of the Man's ability to succeed in a harsh world.
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I really like Eureka, although the technobabble is getting very old.
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They are what is known in technobabble as force multipliers, and they enable you to use a .30/06 (for example) where you would have had to use a .338 years ago.
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And I'm really glad the technical details of how the time loop was created and sustained are somewhat glossed over without devolving into technobabble, which is what I was expecting.
Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Window Of Opportunity' (S04E06) 2009
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Yet at the same time, the film depends so profoundly on Japanese anime-styled technobabble, which is so alien to Western SF that, outside of the context of animation, it sounds ridiculous, and the film's English subtitles, originally directly translated, had to be adapted to make it conform reasonably to Western SF consumers 'expectations.
gordsellar.com 2008
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I agree that Ron Moore's aversion to "technobabble" seems to consist of simply not explaining anything.
The Episode That Broke Me and Other "Crossroads II" Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2007
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If I could take all of the meaningless 'technobabble' scenes out of films I would.
The Devil is in the Details... Carlo Artieri 2006
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In Star Trek, the term "technobabble" was created to describe the nonsense you would often hear when Geordi or Data would explain how something on the Enterprise worked.
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There’s a lot of this kind of technobabble sprinkled around MS products once you get past the really obvious errors.
Why Microsoft Should Fix Its Error Messages In Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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There’s a lot of this kind of technobabble sprinkled around MS products once you get past the really obvious errors.
Why Microsoft Should Fix Its Error Messages In Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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