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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
nontechnical \nontechnical\ adjective
1. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of {technical}.
Syn: untechnical. [WordNet 1.5]
2. comprehensible to the general public; not requiring specialized training to be understood; as, written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language.
Syn: lay, plain, popular, unspecialized, untechnical. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nontechnical
adjective: not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language" [syn: {untechnical}] [ant: {technical}]
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