Definitions for rube goldberg
ˈrub ˈgoʊld bɜrgrube gold·berg

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1. Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldbergnoun

   United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)

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1. Rube Goldberg

   Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression "Rube Goldberg machines" to describe similar gadgets and processes. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1948, the National Cartoonists Society's Gold T-Square Award in 1955, and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award in 1959. He was a founding member and first president of the National Cartoonists Society, which hosts the annual Reuben Award, honoring the top cartoonist of the year and named after Goldberg, who won the award in 1967. He is the inspiration for international competitions known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to create a complicated machine to perform a simple task.

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1. rube goldberg

   A Rube Goldberg refers to a type of deliberately complex contraption in which a series of devices perform simple tasks linked together to produce a domino effect, in which activating one device triggers the next one in the sequence. The term originated from Rube Goldberg, an American cartoonist and inventor, known for his cartoons depicting such devices. In a broader context, it can refer to any form of complex system or procedure that achieves a simple task in a convoluted way.

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1. Rube Goldberg

   Reuben Garrett Lucius "Rube" Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor. Similar to Heath Robinson devices in the UK, he is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award 1959. Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to the Cartoonist of the Year. He is the inspiration for various international competitions, known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rube goldberg in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rube goldberg in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of rube goldberg in a Sentence

1. Elon Musk:

   The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one, so it’s quite difficult to keep this thing running, and then also difficult to advance the product because it is really overly complex, to say the least.

2. Elon Musk:

   The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one.

3. Jim Womack:

   There's a pretty high correlation between Elon Musk announcing a new sort of Rube Goldberg activities and the lack of anything else to report that investors might actually be interested in.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
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