rocket science

noun

1. rocketry.
2. something requiring great intelligence, especially mathematical ability.

rocket science

noun

1. informal.
   an activity requiring considerable intelligence and ability (esp in the phrase not exactly rocket science )

Derived Forms

• rocket scientist, noun

Example Sentences

If your WiFi is on the fritz, a manual interface that doesn’t take rocket science to use will keep your house comfortable.

From Popular-Science

It’s not like total rocket science, and it’s becoming easier and easier.

From Digiday

As part of the training for these programs, recruits had to take classes on literal rocket science and spacecraft engineering.

From MIT Technology Review

Yet, Florida has failed to figure out how to run an election properly — a task simpler than rocket science.

From Washington Post

While others might have had their nose in The Hardy Boys, LeCun was picking up books on evolution, astronomy, and rocket science.

From The Daily Beast

But although executing on nuclear strategy is rocket science, formulating it is not.

From The Daily Beast

It's not like this is rocket science, but it is good marketing.

From The Daily Beast

You can flavor meats in so many different ways and, from a technique point of view, it is absolutely not rocket science.

From The Daily Beast