˜yÐÄvlog

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technobabble

[ tek-noh-bab-uhl ]

noun

  1. incomprehensible technical language or jargon.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of technobabble1

First recorded in 1980–85; patterned on psychobabble
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Example Sentences

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The series’ celebrated technobabble is just a kind of reformulated abracadabra; human characters get the hang of alien gear faster than you could look up how to reset your car’s clock in the owner’s manual.

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Otherwise, stick around here, and we’ll keep you up to date with the important news, translate the technobabble, and just quietly ignore most of the advertising over the next few hours.

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Otherwise, stick around here, and we’ll keep you up to date with the important news, translate the technobabble, and just quietly ignore the advertising over the next few hours.

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Lashings of technobabble aside, none of the practical or scientific material in the show seems remotely true or plausible, especially the speed at which things are supposed to happen.

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Among them are evaporating black holes, explosively dying stars, massive colliding objects and—perhaps less seriously—the technobabble transmissions of smart, talkative aliens.

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