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{{redirect-distinguish|Technospeak|technical jargon}}
'''Technobabble''' (a [[portmanteau]] of ''technology'' and ''babble''), also called '''technospeak''',<ref name="OED">{{cite book| title=Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus| publisher=Spark Publishing| ___location=Oxford|year=2007| edition=2nd |isbn=978-1-4114-0508-0}}</ref> is a type of [[nonsense]] that consists of [[buzzword]]s, [[wiktionary:esoteric|esoteric]] language, or technical [[jargon]].<ref name="CB">{{cite web|url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/?p=10866| title=Buzzwords – bang * splat !| last=Lundin|first=Leigh| date=2009-12-31| publisher=Criminal Brief |work=Don Martin School of Software}}</ref> It is common in [[science fiction]]. Use of technobabble in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe is referred to as '''treknobabble'''.
== See also ==
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