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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



... enough has been given to show that we have here an engineer of various and even brilliant gifts. Mr. Clark has applied himself in divers directions, and never applied himself in vain. There is always some practical result to show which will be useful to others. In technical literature he published a description of the Conway and Britannia Tubular Bridges as long ago as 1849. There is a valuable communication of his in the Board of Trade Blue Rook on Submarine Cables. In 1868, ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro
... He had one technical defect, if defect it might be called. In the larger affairs of his unhallowed business he displayed a mental adaptability, a talent to think quickly and shift his tactics to meet the suddenly arisen emergency, which was the envy of lesser ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... arrive a day sooner, taught us a lesson? And had not the way in which the Japanese steamer, also provided with a wireless apparatus, stuck to us so persistently between Valparaiso and Callao shown us plainly that every new technical discovery has its ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting and tending to a crisis, after which it declines; that from opium, when once generated, is stationary for eight or ten hours; the first, to borrow a technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But the main distinction lies in this, that whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium, on ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... certain waters therein defined. In the waters not included in the limits named in the convention (within 3 miles of parts of the British coast) it has been the custom for many years to give to intruding fishermen of the United States a reasonable warning of their violation of the technical rights of Great Britain. The Imperial Government is understood to have delegated the whole or a share of its jurisdiction or control of these inshore fishing grounds to the colonial authority known as the Dominion of Canada, and this semi-independent but irresponsible agent has exercised its delegated ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson


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