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Substantiivit

  1. (literally) The wave produced by a hand.
  2. A glib statement or explanation that glosses over important details.

Verbit

  1. (rhetoric, academia) To explain something superficially, skipping over important details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead.

Esimerkit

  • The leader, an upright, broad-shouldered old man, with snow-white hair, half halts his horse with a handwave of salutation, as he reaches the Imperial Crown Prince, then gallops on with the latter hanging close on his flank.
  • "[...]In fact I tell this mob"— he gave a derogatory handwave in the direction of the ten or twelve pairs of eyes that were still intent on us—"that I was the original of these Pappa-whatsits."
  • "Papparazzi."
  • In this glib handwave by Friedman, the real results are determined independently of money and financing phenomena; given the way monetarists set up the analysis, the rate of growth of money can only affect the behavior of the price level.
  • Some readers may wish to handwave this restriction away, thinking of \tfrac{∂}{∂ρ} as a differentiable vector field on \mathbb{R}^2 that behaves badly at the origin; this approach will suffice for the purposes of this book.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektihandwaved
Imperfektihandwaved
Partisiipin preesenshandwaving
Monikkohandwaves
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenshandwaves