handwaver
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who engages in handwaving.
noun
Someone who engages in handwaving.
Example Sentences
- "Take his predictions about our technological and business-development timelines with a grain of salt, because he's an inveterate handwaver."
- "It is easy to lose sight of the fact that the oversimplified model that is eddy diffusion must be used with care and with a great deal of auxiliary physical insight. Well-educated handwavers often produce more useful results than the people who concentrate on the mathematical and computational aspects of the problem. The ideal is a suitable combination of the two. One way to become well-educated is to study various limiting cases that can be solved analytically. Indeed, these solutions can take us surprisingly far into many problems, sometimes rivalling what can be done with a computer. The substance of this article is a summary of the available solutions, and a critical compilation of eddy coefficients for the atmospheres of the Earth and a few other objects."
- "It is quite inconceivable that any handwaver could ever have dreamt up the use of a pendulum to measure dissolved carbon concentrations!"
- "A gifted pupil might sometimes need to be coached privately about avoiding presenting themself as a handwaver."
- "The very intelligent pupil soon becomes bored by the repetition and sits aloof and inattentive, or he becomes a "handwaver" and thus draws upon himself unwarranted and sometimes open rebuke by his classmates."