 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
technical
adjective
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"
noun
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Technical \Tech"nic*al\, adjective [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.
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
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