Technobabble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Technical jargon: "The playwright can send up the garbled technobabble of modern bureaucracy as expertly as anyone” ( Peter Marks).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Technical or scientific language used in fiction to convey a false impression of meaningful technical or scientific content.
  • n. From the point of view of the layperson, technical and scientific literature not understood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    jargon   
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