technical

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Usage notes 1.2.2 Related terms 1.2.3 Derived terms 1.2.4 Translations 1.3 Noun 1.4 References 1.5 External links

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[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /"tEknIk(@)l/
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[edit] 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.
2. (slang) A secretarial way of saying "specific".

[edit] Usage notes

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

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• technological

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[edit] 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”^[1], 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.

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

• Technical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia