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jargon
1[ jahr-guhn, -gon ]
noun
- the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group:
medical jargon.
- unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish.
- any talk or writing that one does not understand.
- language that is characterized by uncommon or pretentious vocabulary and convoluted syntax and is often vague in meaning.
verb (used without object)
- to speak in or write jargon; jargonize.
jargon
2[ jahr-gon ]
noun
- a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
jargon
1/ ˈdʒɑːɡən /
noun
- specialized language concerned with a particular subject, culture, or profession
- language characterized by pretentious syntax, vocabulary, or meaning
- gibberish
- another word for pidgin
verb
- intr to use or speak in jargon
jargon
2/ dʒɑːˈɡuːn; ˈdʒɑːɡɒn /
noun
- rare.mineralogy a golden yellow, smoky, or colourless variety of zircon
jargon
- A special language belonging exclusively to a group, often a profession. Engineers, lawyers, doctors, tax analysts, and the like all use jargon to exchange complex information efficiently. Jargon is often unintelligible to those outside the group that uses it. For example, here is a passage from a computer manual with the jargon italicized: “The RZ887-x current loop interface allows the computer to use a centronics blocked duplex protocol .” ( See slang .)
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- jargon·y jargon·istic adjective
- jargon·ist jargon·eer noun
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Example Sentences
This is known as close air support, or CAS, in military jargon.
As fluent in drug trade jargon as Martian, Future peppers his lyrics with interstellar imagery befitting of his far out vocals.
Baffled by the jargon-heavy consumer information manual, I chatted with Cheryl Luptowski from the NSF consumer affairs office.
Above all, she felt, there was a more pressing need for it than ever before, with jargon steadily taking over the world.
As his highly technical and jargon-laden presentation rambled on, Obama was beginning to lose patience.
We owe it neither to the Syriac tongue nor to the Hebrew, a jargon of the Syriac, in which adultery is called niuph.
I'm quite out of the hunt here, however, for I can't pretend to understand the jargon of the thing.
Madame Probasco immediately transferred the glove to her forehead, and the jargon increased in rapidity.
Why introduce an unintelligible jargon, when we may be understood by pronouncing a simple name?
They are a people within a people, differing in dress as well as in language, which is a jargon of German-Hebrew.
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