Jargon
noun
Special words or expressions used by a particular profession or group that might be hard for others to understand.
Medical jargon can be very confusing for non-medical professionals.
Often appears as...
- legal jargon
- medical jargon
noun
Words or expressions used by people in a particular field or interest that are difficult to understand for those outside the field.
The programmer talked in computer jargon that his friends could not understand.
Often appears as...
- computer jargon
- software jargon
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Special words or expressions used by a particular profession or group that might be hard for others to understand.
Medical jargon can be very confusing for non-medical professionals.
Often appears as...
- legal jargon
- medical jargon
noun
Words or expressions used by people in a particular field or interest that are difficult to understand for those outside the field.
The programmer talked in computer jargon that his friends could not understand.
Often appears as...
- computer jargon
- software jargon
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Confusion Alert
Jargon can be confusing if you're not familiar with the specific field it comes from.
Trying to read a legal document full of jargon without any legal background left me puzzled.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Universal
Jargon is not understood globally; it varies between different professions and regions.
I learned that finance jargon used in the US can differ from the jargon in the UK.
Pro Tip 3/3Language Evolution
Some jargon can become mainstream over time and get incorporated into everyday language.
Tech jargon like 'app' has become a common term everyone understands now.
Pro Tip 1/3Confusion Alert
Jargon can be confusing if you're not familiar with the specific field it comes from.
Trying to read a legal document full of jargon without any legal background left me puzzled.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Universal
Jargon is not understood globally; it varies between different professions and regions.
I learned that finance jargon used in the US can differ from the jargon in the UK.
Pro Tip 3/3Language Evolution
Some jargon can become mainstream over time and get incorporated into everyday language.
Tech jargon like 'app' has become a common term everyone understands now.
Pro Tip 1/3Confusion Alert
Jargon can be confusing if you're not familiar with the specific field it comes from.
Trying to read a legal document full of jargon without any legal background left me puzzled.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Universal
Jargon is not understood globally; it varies between different professions and regions.
I learned that finance jargon used in the US can differ from the jargon in the UK.
Pro Tip 3/3Language Evolution
Some jargon can become mainstream over time and get incorporated into everyday language.
Tech jargon like 'app' has become a common term everyone understands now.
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What is color? - Colm...
This repetitive or periodic motion is characteristic of waves. Then you notice something else using a stopwatch, you measure the time it takes for the piece of cork to go over its highest position down to its lowest and then back up again. Suppose this takes two seconds. To use the physics jargon, you've measured the period of the waves that cork is bobbing on.
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Social Services Are...
they didn't necessarily have the answers, who said -- well, they weren't going to talk in jargon. They showed their human qualities and convinced the mothers that they would stick with them through thick and thin, even though they wouldn't be soft with them. So these new teams and the families were then given a sliver of the former budget,
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Tal Golesworthy: How I...
The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.
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Jimmy Wales: How a...
because I don't agree with you about what's the truth. But we have this jargon term of neutrality, which has its own long history within the community, which basically says, any time there's a controversial issue, Wikipedia itself should not take a stand on the issue. We should merely report on what reputable parties have said about it.
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The language of being...
The first entry said, "The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured or conventional way." The definition at the bottom refers to specialized fields, like medicine, science, tech. We know they have their own vernacular, their own jargon.
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Adrian Myers: Where...
jargon can be windows into the past present and future archaeology is one way of making connections between these old things and people and events one entry way into telling stories for creating knowledge or for interpreting the world around us the archaeology of modern times is in
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Mental Health for All by...
It seems to me that there are five key lessons that I've shown on this slide that are critically important for effective task shifting. The first is that we need to simplify the message that we're using, stripping away all the jargon that medicine has invented around itself.
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Melissa Marshall: Talk...
Don't just tell me that you study trabeculae, but tell me that you study trabeculae, which is the mesh-like structure of our bones because it's important to understanding and treating osteoporosis. And when you're describing your science, beware of jargon.
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Andrew Bastawrous: Get...
accurately tested using an app and an eye tracker. We've got many trials going on in the community and in schools, and through the lessons that we've learned in the field, we've realized it's extremely important to share the data in non-medical jargon
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We can solve big...
shortcut or a breakthrough in the jargon of Silicon Valley we want disruptions technological innovations that appear like miracles and displace tired ways of doing things often by competing on price but in the real world technological
Video examples
What is color? - Colm...
This repetitive or periodic motion is characteristic of waves. Then you notice something else using a stopwatch, you measure the time it takes for the piece of cork to go over its highest position down to its lowest and then back up again. Suppose this takes two seconds. To use the physics jargon, you've measured the period of the waves that cork is bobbing on.
Video examples
Social Services Are...
they didn't necessarily have the answers, who said -- well, they weren't going to talk in jargon. They showed their human qualities and convinced the mothers that they would stick with them through thick and thin, even though they wouldn't be soft with them. So these new teams and the families were then given a sliver of the former budget,
Video examples
Tal Golesworthy: How I...
The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.
Video examples
Jimmy Wales: How a...
because I don't agree with you about what's the truth. But we have this jargon term of neutrality, which has its own long history within the community, which basically says, any time there's a controversial issue, Wikipedia itself should not take a stand on the issue. We should merely report on what reputable parties have said about it.
Video examples
The language of being...
The first entry said, "The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured or conventional way." The definition at the bottom refers to specialized fields, like medicine, science, tech. We know they have their own vernacular, their own jargon.
Video examples
Adrian Myers: Where...
jargon can be windows into the past present and future archaeology is one way of making connections between these old things and people and events one entry way into telling stories for creating knowledge or for interpreting the world around us the archaeology of modern times is in
Video examples
Mental Health for All by...
It seems to me that there are five key lessons that I've shown on this slide that are critically important for effective task shifting. The first is that we need to simplify the message that we're using, stripping away all the jargon that medicine has invented around itself.
Video examples
Melissa Marshall: Talk...
Don't just tell me that you study trabeculae, but tell me that you study trabeculae, which is the mesh-like structure of our bones because it's important to understanding and treating osteoporosis. And when you're describing your science, beware of jargon.
Video examples
Andrew Bastawrous: Get...
accurately tested using an app and an eye tracker. We've got many trials going on in the community and in schools, and through the lessons that we've learned in the field, we've realized it's extremely important to share the data in non-medical jargon
Video examples
We can solve big...
shortcut or a breakthrough in the jargon of Silicon Valley we want disruptions technological innovations that appear like miracles and displace tired ways of doing things often by competing on price but in the real world technological
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John Drane
American Theologian
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.
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Susie Dent
English Scientist
Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.
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Nina Bawden
British Writer
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
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Angela Rayner
British Politician
I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.
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Anne Stevenson
American Poet
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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Ezra Pound
American Poet
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
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Nancy Pearcey
American Author
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Ol Parker
I hired people who would help me, you know, like a director of photography who wouldn't blind me with jargon about ratios and pull-downs.
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Mario Monti
Italian Public Servant
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
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Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
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John Drane
American Theologian
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.
Quote examples
Susie Dent
English Scientist
Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.
Quote examples
Nina Bawden
British Writer
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
Quote examples
Angela Rayner
British Politician
I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.
Quote examples
Anne Stevenson
American Poet
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Quote examples
Ezra Pound
American Poet
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Quote examples
Nancy Pearcey
American Author
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Quote examples
Ol Parker
I hired people who would help me, you know, like a director of photography who wouldn't blind me with jargon about ratios and pull-downs.
Quote examples
Mario Monti
Italian Public Servant
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
Quote examples
Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
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