"Technospeak" redirects here. Not to be confused with technical jargon.
Technobabble (a portmanteau of technology and babble), also called technospeak,[1] is a type of nonsense that consists of buzzwords, esoteric language, or technical jargon.[2] It is common in science fiction.
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Technobabble (a portmanteau of technology and babble), also called technospeak, is a type of nonsense that consists of buzzwords, esoteric language, or...
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1989. His discussions of quantum healing have been characterised as technobabble - "incoherent babbling strewn with scientific terms" which drives those...
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Counter-Clock Incident". In order to focus more on the story and away from the technobabble, Gene Roddenberry commissioned Michael Okuda to invent a revised warp...
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"NTB05058 Nissan technical service bulletin regarding power valve screws" "Technobabble: December 2001 by Dave Coleman, "SportCompactCar", December 2001, retrieved...
BEST-EVER MONTH". thefreelibrary.com. Coleman, Dave (November 1998). "Technobabble: Multilink and the Beam". Sport Compact Car. Archived from the original...
achieve faster-than-light speeds. Banks has evolved a (self-confessedly) technobabble system of theoretical physics to describe the ships' acceleration and...
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apparatus", published 2001-01-30, assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. "SCC Technobabble - October '98". www.se-r.net. Retrieved 2021-04-19. Wikimedia Commons...
concept of hyperspace, the reasons given for such restrictions are usually technobabble, but their existence can be an important plot device.: 74–76 : 554 Science...
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