technical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
technical (comparative more technical, superlative most technical)
- Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any academic, legal, science, engineering, business, or the like terminology with specific and precise meaning or (frequently, as a degree of distinction) shades of meaning; specially appropriate to any art, science or engineering field, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
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1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled![1]:
- Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
- 2006, Asaf Darr, Selling Technology (page 94)
- One example of the blurring of boundaries is the growing interdependence of social and technical skills. The sales engineers and the clients' engineers are all knowledge workers.
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- (of a person) Technically-minded; adept with science and technology.
- Relating to technique.
- The performance showed technical virtuosity, but lacked inspiration.
- (securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.
- The market had a technical rally, due to an oversold condition.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (securities and other markets): fundamental
Related terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from technical (adjective)
Translations[edit]
pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts
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technically-minded
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relating to technique
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relating to the internal mechanics of a market
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Noun[edit]
technical (plural technicals)
- A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
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2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”[2], New York Times:
- “Individuals or groups of people who have trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns, known as ‘technicals,’ should bring those battlewagons to Mogadishu’s old port,” he said.
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- (basketball) A technical foul: a violation of sportsmanlike conduct, not involving physical contact.
- (video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.
Translations[edit]
pickup truck-based fighting vehicle
References[edit]
- “technical” in the The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
- "technical" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
