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English

Pronunciation

SAMPA: /"tEknIk(@)l/

Adjective

Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any academic, legal, science, engineering, business, or the like terminology with specific and precise meaning or (frequently, as a degree of distinction) shades of meaning; specially appropriate to any art, science or engineering field, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
A secretarial way of saying "specific".

Translations

Noun

A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
A technical foul: a violation of sportsmanlike conduct, not involving physical contact.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet 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}]

Moby Dictionary
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

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.