Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 52992 6531227 2009-05-04T17:43:08Z DerbethBot 48857 added audio En-us-technical.ogg {{wikipedia}} ==English== ===Pronunciation=== * {{SAMPA|/"tEknIk(@)l/}} * {{audio|En-us-technical.ogg|Audio (US)}} ===Adjective=== {{en-adj}} # 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. # {{slang}} A secretarial way of saying "specific". ====Usage notes==== * Said of documents, subjects, writers, terms, issues, etc. ====Related terms==== * [[technological]] ====Derived terms==== {{rel-top|terms derived from ''technical (adjective)''}} * [[technicality]] * [[technical analysis]] * [[technical drawing]] * [[technical knockout]] {{rel-mid}} * [[technical meaning]] * [[technical sense]] * [[technical term]] {{rel-bottom}} ====Translations==== {{trans-top|pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts}} * Czech: [[technický]] {{m}} * Dutch: [[technisch]] * German: [[technisch]], [[fachlich]] {{trans-mid}} * Polish: [[techniczny]] {{m}} * Russian: [[технический]] {{m}} {{trans-bottom}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # A [[pickup truck]] with a gun mounted on it. #*{{quote-news|year=2007|date=January 2|author=Jeffrey Gettleman|title=After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/africa/02somalia.html |passage=“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.}} # {{basketball}} A [[technical foul]]: a violation of sportsmanlike conduct, not involving physical contact. ===References=== * {{R:NOAD 2005}} * {{R:WordNet 2006}} ===External links=== * {{pedialite}} [[zh-min-nan:technical]] [[et:technical]] [[el:technical]] [[fa:technical]] [[fr:technical]] [[io:technical]] [[it:technical]] [[lt:technical]] [[hu:technical]] [[ru:technical]] [[simple:technical]] [[fi:technical]] [[ta:technical]] [[te:technical]] [[vi:technical]] [[tr:technical]] [[zh:technical]]