technical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”).
For the late 20th-century origin of the noun sense (vehicle), see Wikipedia.
Base: technicus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more technical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most technical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Specifically related to a particular discipline.
pos: adj
examples: Particle physics uses the word spin in a technical sense.
By granting the appeal, the court is directly taking on the merits of a controversy that it largely avoided earlier this year, when it sided with Trump on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts.
One example of the blurring of boundaries is the growing interdependence of social and technical skills. The sales engineers and the clients' engineers are all knowledge workers.
gloss: Specifically related to a particular discipline.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: This part of the article is going to be quite technical but I cannot avoid it. It's a very complex topic.
gloss: Of or related to technology.
pos: adj
examples: Since the 1940s there had been many technical advancements, and a Mach 3 interceptor was no longer a mere pipe dream.
gloss: Technically minded; adept with science and technology.
pos: adj
examples: Kayla can probably get the printer working. She's technical like that.
gloss: Relating to, or requiring, technique.
pos: adj
examples: The performance showed technical virtuosity, but lacked inspiration.
Its design apparently made for interesting racing, with a challenging climb, technical bends and a finishing straight long enough to produce exciting sprints.
gloss: Relating to, or requiring, technique.
pos: adj
examples: technical climbing
It was a technical ascent involving ropework, belays, and protection, and the exposure was great, but there were abundant hand and footholds, and the rock was sound.
gloss: Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.
pos: adj
examples: The market had a technical rally, due to an oversold condition.
gloss: In the strictest sense, but not practically or meaningfully.
pos: adj
examples: Crossing the front lawn of that house to get to the mailbox was a technical trespass.
Antonyms: non-technical
nontechnical
Related words: technological
technically
technology
Derived words: aerotechnical
agrotechnical
ampelotechnical
anthropotechnical
biotechnical
chief technical officer
cybertechnical
diatechnical
electrotechnical
geotechnical
histotechnical
hydrotechnical
hypertechnical
medicotechnical
nanotechnical
overtechnical
pharmacotechnical
polytechnical
pretechnical
pseudotechnical
psychotechnical
pyrotechnical
secondary technical school
semitechnical
sociotechnical
subtechnical
supertechnical
technical analysis
technical analyst
technical area
technical climbing
technical college
technical cybernetics
technical debt
technical difficulty
technical diving
technical drawing
technical group
technicalia
technicalism
technicalist
technicality
technicalization
technicalize
technical knockout
technical meaning
technicalness
technical pen
technical pencil
technical school
technical sense
technical sergeant
technical skier
technical skiing
technical standard
technical stop
technical submission
technical support
technical tap
technical tee
technical term
technical university
technical week
technical win
technical writer
technical writing
techwear
Treknical
ultratechnical
untechnical
zymotechnical
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: техничен
roman: tehničen
lang: German
word: handwerklich
lang: German
word: technisch
lang: Malayalam
word: സാങ്കേതിക
roman: sāṅkētika
lang: Tagalog
word: aghimuin
lang: Welsh
word: technegol