MEGO

( /me´goh/, /mee´goh/)

   ["My  Eyes  Glaze  Over",  often  "Mine  Eyes  Glazeth  (sic)  Over",
   attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also MEGO factor.

   1.  n.  A  {handwave}  intended to confuse the listener and hopefully
   induce  agreement  because the listener does not want to admit to not
   understanding  what  is  going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior
   management by engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s.

   2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics.

   3.  Among  non-hackers,  often refers not to behavior that causes the
   eyes  to  glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be
   triggered  by  the  mere  threat  of  excessive  technical  detail as
   effectively as by an actual excess of it.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {cybercrud}]