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mathbabble

mathbabble noun: incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations.

Noun

mathbabble (uncountable)

  1. Incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations.
    • I agree that it was nice to see a woman of the mathematical persuasion, and although Chris' patented MathBabble(tm) did its job and completely nauseated me and thus prevented any enjoyment of seeing a living breathing mathbabe on NEXP, I was surprised to hear about her new-agey theory that if she...1992 October 15, Chad Mattingly, “Number theory”, in alt.tv.northern-exp (Usenet)
    • No, I mean wrt to a menu _bar_. If you move the menbar you'd loose the backtop, and it would slow down a whole lot. (at least, it seems to for me. And my mathbabble says it should. This is what's so wrong with Window's, Motif and OS/2 menubars.)1993 November 11, Dan Johnson, “Taligent fails”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet)

Examples of mathbabble in a sentence

  • Techno-babble strikes again! / >Rachel / Actually it's mathbabble, a much more refined dialect.1996 October 1, Rick, “KNOCK IT OFF.......please!”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):
  • This is a lot of mathbabble, in more common language it is this :[…]1998 March 24, Peter Rottengatter, “AES evnt_button() problems”, in comp.sys.atari.programmer (Usenet):
  • I recognized enough of his mathbabble to know that he was dealing with integrals, and integrals are something which I do not recall as being introduced prior to Calculus math courses.2002 January 30, Lumina Dragon, “Electrostatics”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):
  • I'm not talking "truth values" "atomic statements" and "truth table" mathbabble here.2006 September 8, Lester Zick, “How big is infinity?”, in sci.math (Usenet):

Origin of mathbabble

From math + babble.

Questions about mathbabble

What does mathbabble mean?
Mathbabble means incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations.
How do you use mathbabble in a sentence?
Techno-babble strikes again! / >Rachel / Actually it's mathbabble, a much more refined dialect.
What part of speech is mathbabble?
Mathbabble is a noun.

Words near mathbabble in the dictionary

  1. matha
  2. Mathai
  3. Mathais
  4. mathas
  5. Mathathias
  6. mathbabble
  7. mathcore
  8. mathdoku
  9. mathed
  10. Matheis
  11. Matheises

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