technicality
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti/
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Noun
[edit]technicality (countable and uncountable, plural technicalities)
- The quality or state of being technical.
- Synonym: technicalness
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, , page 6:
- Ha and Hyland suggest that technicality is not binary and it is not always possible to say that a word is technical or not.
- That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
- the technicalities of the sect
- A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.
- legal technicality
- 1948, David K. Breed, The Trial of Christ from Legal and Scriptural Viewpoint, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN, page 8:
- These are some of the "Reversible Errors" on which a new trial can be had and are often spoken of by misinformed business men as "technicalities," as when they say a certain gangster "got off on a technicality" or "got a new trial on a technicality."
- 1996, Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, Imperium Sine Fine, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 75:
- Mommsen believed that Claudius had been an augur who was ordered by a chief pontiff Metellus to inaugurate Sulpicius son of Servius as a priest, that Claudius declined on grounds of a religious technicality, that Claudius was subsequently fined by the chief pontiff, and that Claudius appealed the fine.
- 2024 April 25, Gloria Oladipo, “Harvey Weinstein: New York court overturns 2020 rape conviction”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- In 2021, Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out the sexual assault conviction of Bill Cosby on a legal technicality, after discovering an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented the actor from being charged in the case.