spherical cow

English

Noun

spherical cow (plural spherical cows)

  1. (humorous) A highly simplified scientific model of a complex real-life phenomenon.
    Synonym: spherical chicken
    • Csaba Csaki (ed.), Scott Dodelson (ed.), Physics of the Large and the Small: TASI 09, Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (page 405)
      […] something of a "spherical cow" approximation of dark matter.

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