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technobabble
[ tek-noh-bab-uhl ]
noun
- incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of technobabble1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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