Technical
['teknɪk(ə)l] or ['tɛknɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
(adj.) resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations; 'analysts content that the stock market is due for a technical rally'; 'the fall is only a technical correction' .
(adj.) characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences; 'a technical problem'; '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' .
(adj.) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood; 'technical terminology'; 'a technical report'; 'technical language' .
(adj.) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill; 'his technical innovation was his brushwork'; 'the technical dazzle of her dancing' .
(adj.) of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles; 'technical college'; 'technological development' .
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
Checker: Wendy
Definition
adj. pertaining to art esp. the useful arts: belonging to a particular art or profession.—n. Technical′ity state or quality of being technical: that which is technical.—adv. Tech′nically.—ns. Tech′nicalness; Techni′cian; Tech′nicist one skilled in the practical arts.—n.pl. Tech′nics the doctrine of arts in general: the branches that relate to the arts; Technique (tek-nēk′) method of performance manipulation esp. everything concerned with the mechanical part of a musical performance.—adjs. Technolog′ic -al relating to technology.—ns. Technol′ogist one skilled in technology; Technol′ogy the systematic knowledge of the industrial arts: a discourse or treatise on the arts: an explanation of terms employed in the arts; Technon′omy the principles underlying technology.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As mere school studies, their acquisition has only a technical worth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would not do, of course, to say that all these distinctions persisted in full technical definiteness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Too often the pupil comes out with a smattering which is too superficial to be scientific and too technical to be applicable to ordinary affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He is describing, with a certain subdued enthusiasm, the probable technical developments of military method in the next war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then don't be too technical, darling. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The production of engravings is just as highly technical and scientific and involves as much experience and judgment in their application as any of the learned professions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is curious and pertinent to note that a similar plebiscite taken by a technical journal among its expert readers had exactly the same result. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The petroleum wells of America are of the same technical description. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Van der Weyde, a well-known physicist in his day, and was exhibited by him before a technical audience at Cooper Union, New York, in 1868, and described shortly after in the technical press. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To produce such a house involved the overcoming of many engineering and other technical difficulties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The little book is the only known incursion of its author into literature, if we except the brief articles he has written for technical papers and for the magazines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typed by Doreen