Unclear Description: Technobabble

In the trope's description, it says "Any impressive- and scientific-sounding, but ultimately nonsensical utterance, full of Sci-Fi Name Buzzwords."

However, the opening quote, and some of the examples make sense:

Doctor: Looks like a spatio-temporal hyperlink. Mickey: What's that? Doctor: No idea, just made it up. Didn't want to say "Magic Door".

A spatio-temporal hyperlink, from the name is a Space-Time Linkage, which is what it is a link between two different times and places.

An example that makes sense is: "Super-electro-magnetic-shrapnel cannon", a cannon that shoots shrapnel, with electro-magnetism, a coilgun or railgun.

There was a previous topic about this article here:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=2o6xood8bf95ts9qnfjt5jl9&page=1

But, that was on splitting the article...

edited 31st Jul '14 3:23:13 PM by Malady

You're nitpicking. The technobabble may make sense on some level, if you parse it down far enough and have a broad enough knowledge of the field it's supposedly about, but without doing that it sounds like just babble.

Declining to open.

edited 31st Jul '14 4:29:18 PM by Madrugada

So, then what about the super cannon example, is that technobabble or not, and what makes technobabble different from Jargon, Meaningless Meaningful Words, Sespedilian Loquaciousness, and other word-meaning based tropes?