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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 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 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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