handwaves

Verb

handwave (third-person singular simple present handwaves, present participle handwaving, simple past and past participle handwaved)

1. (rhetoric) To explain something superficially, skipping over important details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead.
   • Some readers may wish to handwave this restriction away, thinking of #92;tfrac#123;#92;partial#125;#123;#92;partial#92;rho#125; as a differentiable vector field on #92;mathbb#123;R#125;² that behaves badly at the origin; this approach will suffice for the purposes of this book.2001, Stephanie Frank Singer, Symmetry in Mechanics: A Gentle, Modern Introduction, page 33

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