technical

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Etymology

Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τέχνη (“skill”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɛk.nɪk.əl/ X-SAMPA: /"tEk.nIk.@l/

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Adjective

technical (comparative more technical, superlative most technical)

1. 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.
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, 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, […]

2. (slang) A secretarial way of saying "specific".
3. (of a person) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Usage notes

• Said of documents, subjects, writers, terms, issues, etc.

Related terms

• technological
• technically

Derived terms

terms derived from technical (adjective)

technicality technical analysis technical drawing technical knockout

technical meaning technical sense technical term

Translations

pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts

• Afrikaans: tegnies (af)
• Czech: technický (cs) m
• Dutch: technisch (nl)
• Finnish: tekninen (fi)
• German: technisch (de), fachlich (de)
• Greek: τεχνικός (el) (technikós) m
• Hebrew: טכני (he) m
• Irish: teicniúil (ga)

• Marathi: तांत्रिक (mr) (taantrik)
• Polish: techniczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: técnico (pt) m
• Romanian: tehnic (ro) m and n, tehnici (ro) m pl, tehnică (ro) f
• Russian: технический (ru) (texničeskij) m
• Sinhalese: තාක්‍ෂණික (si) (thakshanika)
• Spanish: técnico (es) m
• Turkish: teknik (tr)

Noun

technical (plural technicals)

1. A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
   • 2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”, 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.

2. (basketball) A technical foul: a violation of sportsmanlike conduct, not involving physical contact.

References

• “technical” in the The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
• "technical" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

External links

• Technical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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