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Technical   /tˈɛknɪkəl/   Listen
Technical

adjective
1.
Of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill.  Synonym: proficient.  "The technical dazzle of her dancing"
2.
Characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences.  "Highly technical matters hardly suitable for the general public" , "A technical report" , "Producing the A-bomb was a challenge to the technical people of this country" , "Technical training" , "Technical language"  Antonym: nontechnical.
3.
Of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles.  Synonym: technological.  "Technological development"
4.
Of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood.  Synonym: expert.  "A technical report" , "Technical language"
5.
Resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations.  "The fall is only a technical correction"
noun
1.
A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
2.
(basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play.  Synonym: technical foul.



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"Technical" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hands of the Free-State men, if they choose to put it forth. Let them organize such a scrutiny everywhere, that fraud and violence cannot escape detection and exposure. Let them observe most rigidly all the technical rules imposed upon the electors, that no vote may be lost. Let them come to the polls by thousands, and trample under their feet the shabby bribe for which they are asked to trade away their independence and their virtue. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

... (ACDA) has initiated a number of projects, including a National Academy of Sciences study, requested in April 1974. The Academy's study, Long-Term Worldwide Effects of Multiple Nuclear Weapons Detonations, a highly technical document of more than 200 pages, is now available. The present brief publication seeks to include its essential findings, along with the results of related studies of this Agency, and to provide as well the basic background facts necessary ...
— Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives • United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

... After all, why do you deem it necessary to make a formal declaration of love? Can it be because you have read about such things in our old romances, in which the proceedings in courtship were as solemn as those of the tribunals? That would be too technical. Believe me, let it alone; as I told you in my last letter, the fire lighted, will acquire greater force every day, and you will see, that without having said you love, you will be farther advanced than if you were frightened ...
— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.

... medicine. The miserable little wood block which illustrated that first number would have disgraced a baker's whitey-brown bag, would have been unworthy to illustrate a penny bun. My spirits were certainly dashed at the technical shortcomings of that first serial, and I was hardly surprised when I was informed a few weeks later, that although my admirers at Beverley were deeply interested in the story, it was not a financial success, and that it would be only obliging on my part, and in accordance with my known ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various

... a lurid antithesis to Jewish emancipation at a time when the latter was consummated not only in Western Europe, but also in the semi-civilized Balkan States.... True, the rise of Russian Judaeophobia—the Russian technical term for Jew-hatred—was paralleled by the appearance of German anti-Semitism in which it found a congenial companion. Yet, the anti-Semitism of the West was after all only a weak aftermath of the infantile disease of Europe—the ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow


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