Meaning

The study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges)..

Definitions by Sense

1. The study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges).
2. (derogatory) An exaggerated and pointlessly pedantic systematization, especially of something trivial.
3. (informal) The basic training required to start using a machine or piece of software: what the components of the interface are, what they do, and how to accomplish basic tasks.
4. (US, military, slang) User interface

Example Sentences

We're masters "buttonology" — of experimentation, of keeping pace with far-sighted fashion trends — are climaxed in a new Spring line which we present to the trade as worthy of representing our Golden Jubilee.

Happily this “button book of button books” by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent provides a convenient guide through the maze of buttonology.

He was, of course, immediately appointed Professor of buttonology.

So after all this , it is no wonder that following the discovery of the non-missing button on his pants, Golan came to an important conclusion : Since the inner push toward Buttonology began with the loss of a button during his childhood , Fate had returned that button to him in his old age.

In the short story De lycksaliges ö from 1890 there is a satire on the Historical Museum in Stockholm , where archaeology with its typological method is characterized as a “ buttonology " ( Strindberg 1890 : 116ff ; cf. Welinder 1994 : 297ff , 320ff )

From this point of view ethnology carries on, as do also, of course, all other disciplines, "buttonology" (knappologi).

The Archipelago of Buttonology. It was August Strindberg who coined the term "buttonology." He was angry and needed a taunt.

So how does one avoid the distraction of ATC’s bad timing when flying in the system? Well, practicing your buttonology skills in your primary aircraft is a good start.

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