TERM MEANING -----------------------|------------------------------------------- The theory of X A strange bunch of lemmas which, if you don't think too hard about it, seem to be loosely related to X. trivial we couldn't find a counterexample. underlying principles pointless generalizations of results that weren't interesting in the first place. It is generally My buddies and I agree that... acknowledged that... to be of practical to justify a lot of grant money from people who importance want to think it is of practical importance. non-mathematical lacking a citation to one of my buddies mathematical containing a lot of notation deep complicated and incomprehensible to characterize to embed in a labyrinth of notation. used in industry fiddled with by one of my buddies in a rubber room at IBM, whose manager doesn't understand a word he/she says.