layman

(noun)

A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.

Related Terms

Examples of layman in the following topics:

  • Introduction to Sustainable Production Locations

    • In layman's terms, industrial ecology (also known in a more limited manner as ‘industrial symbiosis') involves arranging businesses in a way so that wastewater, emissions, wastes and other outputs from one or more of the participating businesses can be used as raw materials by one or more of the others.

  • Indicating Who Cares

    • The case for funding more solar energy research is simple enough to present in layman's terms. "

  • Boiling Point Elevation

    • In layman's terms, it is simply a measure of the tendency of the solution molecules to escape by entering the gas phase.

  • Quantitative or Qualitative Data?

    • In layman's terms, a researcher studying quantitative data asks a specific, narrow question and collects a sample of numerical data from participants to answer the question.

  • Direct and Indirect Measurement

    • In layman's terms, the statement of cash flows identifies what resources a business can use relatively quickly.

  • What Does the Law of Averages Say?

    • Thus, the wise course on the eleventh spin would be to bet on red, not on black: exactly the opposite of the layman's analysis.)

  • Q&A Considerations in Non-Academic Environments

    • Begin by explaining the question in layman's terms.