Technical

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Technical \Tech"nic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? an art, probably from
     the same root as ?, ?, to bring forth, produce, and perhaps
     akin to E. text: cf. F. technique.]
     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. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  technical
       adj 1: of or relating to technique; "technical innovation in recent
              novels"; "technical details"
       2: 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" [ant: {nontechnical}]
       3: of or relating to proficiency in a practical skill; "no
          amount of technical skill and craftsmanship can take the
          place of vital interest"- John Dewey
       4: of or relating to a practical subject that is organized
          according to scientific principles; "technical college";
          "technological development" [syn: {technological}]
       5: 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"
       6: of production of chemicals for commercial purposes
          especially on a large scale; "technical (or commercial)
          sulfuric acid"
       n 1: a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it
       2: (basketball) a foul that that can be assessed on a player or
          a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not
          usually involve physical contact during play [syn: {technical
          foul}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "technical":
     accomplished, applied, at concert pitch, authoritative,
     back-burner, career, coached, complex, complicated, confined,
     conversant, detailed, dinky, disciplinary, dispensable, expert,
     feature, featured, finished, functional, immaterial, inappreciable,
     inconsequential, inconsiderable, industrial, inessential, inferior,
     initiate, initiated, insignificant, intricate, irrelevant,
     knowledgeable, limited, little, mechanical, minor, minute,
     negligible, nonessential, not vital, official, petit, polytechnic,
     practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professional, restricted,
     scholarly, scientific, skilled, small, specialist, specialistic,
     specialized, technicological, technological, trained, unessential,
     unimpressive, unnoteworthy, vocational
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TECHNICAL. That which properly belongs to an art. 
       2. In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that 
  technical words are to be taken according to their approved and known use in 
  the trade in which the contract is entered into, or to which it relates, 
  unless they have manifestly been understood in another sense by the parties. 
  2 B. & P. 164; 6 T. R. 320; 3 Stark. Ev. 1036, and the article Construction. 
       3. Words which do not of themselves denote that they are, used in a 
  technical sense, are to have their plain, popular, obvious and natural 
  meaning. 6 Watts & Serg. 114. 
       4. The law, like other professions, has a technical language. "When a 
  mechanic speaks to me of the instruments and operations of his trade,", says 
  Mr. Wynne, Eunom. Dial. 2, s. 5, "I shall be as unlikely to comprehend him, 
  as he would me in the language of my profession, though we both of us spoke 
  English all the while. Is it wonderful then, if in systems of law, and 
  especially among the hasty recruits of commentators, you meet (to use Lord 
  Coke's expression) with a whole army of words that cannot defend themselves 
  in a grammatical war? Technical language, in all cases, is formed from the 
  most intimate knowledge of any art. One words stands for a great many, as it 
  is. always to be resolved into many ideas by definitions. It is, therefore, 
  unintelligible, because it is concise, and it is useful for the same 
  reason." Vide Language.