Word: jargoning
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...phonograph quality is the word "fidelity." Often used as publicity jargon, the word actually refers to a scientific measurement of sound waves an electronic system can reproduce. Fidelity is measured in cycles per second. A true high-fidelity phonograph must reproduce up to 15,000 cycles, the full range of the human ear. Although the actual musical notes may be much lower than this, high fidelity range allows a machine to reproduce orchestral overtones so that the recorded music will sound like the original music instead of a watered-down version...
...Paul R. Hendricks explained that the British firm had not met the city's engineering and delivery requirements; it could not furnish blueprints for twelve months instead of the 120 days specified. Furthermore, Seattle was not sure about other details. Ferranti had written its contract in the technical jargon of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, had merely appended a glossary of I.E.E. terms, leaving Seattle to try to figure out the specifics of the bid for itself...
...through all the muddled chaos of fact and jargon, buzzing in his head, Vag could see her, hear her warm laughter. The thought suffused the sleety streets of his mind; Vag put the book down on the table and leaned back in the chair gently so as not to disturb the image. He closed his eyes...
...President from his Council of Economic Advisers, signed by Keyserling as acting chairman, and by John D. Clark, the council's only other member since the resignation of conscientious, scholarly Dr. Edwin G. Nourse (TIME, Oct. 31). Translated from Keyserling's turgid prose and technical jargon, this is what it said the Truman Administration now believes...
...midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader is to get across that bridge, he has to do it by himself...