The term "simple terms" is subjective and depends on who the audience is. A popular question to qualify for engineering job interviews is "describe in simple t

The term "simple terms" is subjective and depends on who the audience is. A popular question to qualify for engineering job interviews is "describe in simple terms what happens when a user accesses a website on the Internet" - The question doesn't give any info on who the target audience is so you never know what level of detail you're supposed to go into. Because this is an engineering question, I tend to go into more detail but after a certain level, you can't really keep it simple because the reader has to understand what things like cache are... Else you will spend 20 pages just writing definitions.