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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"
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



... models. It is not uniform but symmetrical. The nine stanzas of each ode form three groups. A slight examination will show that the 1st, 4th, and 7th stanzas are exactly inter-correspondent; so the 2d, 5th, and 8th; and so the remaining three. The technical Greek names for these three parts were [Greek: strophe] (strophe), [Greek: antistrophe] (antistrophe), and [Greek: epodos] (epodos)—the Turn, the Counter-turn, and the After-song—names derived from the theatre; the Turn ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... not, usually, been included among the studies of the young scientific or engineering student, or of any students in other lines than Philosophy and Education. This, not because its value as a "culture subject" was not understood, but because the course of the average student is so crowded with technical preparation necessary to his life work, and because the practical value of psychology has not been recognized. It is well recognized that the teacher must understand the working of the mind in order best to impart his information in that way that will enable the student to grasp ...
— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth
... employment, and consequently, improved opportunities for employers to reduce wages. That is probably the reason why the Liberal Party—which consists for the most part of exploiters of labour—procured the great Jim Scalds to tell us that improved technical education is the remedy for unemployment ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... TRANSCENDENTAL are technical terms in philosophy. According to their etymology, (from transcendere,) they signify that which goes beyond a certain limit; in philosophy, that which goes beyond, or transcends, the circle of experience, or of what is perceptible by the senses. ...
— The Book of Religions • John Hayward
... of decline gratuitously painful to record; and which in this case mine cannot be the cold and technical hand to trace. At length came that time when physicians could define within a few days the final hour of release. And latterly the mocking pruderies of rank had been laid aside, and Maltravers had, for some hours at least in the day, taken his watch beside ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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