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technical, a. (n.)|ˈtɛknɪkəl|
[f. Gr. τεχνικ-ός (see technic) + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Of a person: Skilled in or practically conversant with some particular art or subject. Also spec. in the official designations of certain ranks in the armed forces of the U.K. and U.S.
1617Hales Serm. 2 Pet. iii. 16. 19 Not to think themselues sufficiently provided vpon their acquaintance with some Notitia, or systeme of some technicall divine. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India III. ii. 81 The managers..not being technical men. 1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings i. 6 As regards the mechanics, the quality of their skilled work is tempered by the technical sergeant-major, who knows most things about an aeroplane, and the quality of their behaviour by the disciplinary sergeant-major, usually an ex-regular with a lively talent for blasting. 1920Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 26 June 1338/2 Enlisted men of the ‘second grade’ will be designated as Technical Sergeants or First Sergeants. 1926Brit. Gaz. 12 May 3/2 At Basingstoke there is a supply of technical engineers available for work elsewhere. 1937Discovery June 168/2 Behind the barge followed the baggage canoe, with two technical assistants and two polers. 1961G. Millerson Technique Television Production 15 The technical director is in charge of the technical operational staff on the show. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp i. 15 Technical Sergeant Garp..served with the Eighth Air Force.
†2. Of a thing: Skilfully done or made: cf. technic a. 2. Obs. rare—0.
1656Blount Glossogr., Technical (technicus), artificial, cunning, done like a workman. [Perhaps never in Eng.]
3. a. Belonging or relating to an art or arts; appropriate or peculiar to, or characteristic of, a particular art, science, profession, or occupation; also, of or pertaining to the mechanical arts and applied sciences generally, as in technical education, or technical college, technical school, technical university.
technical difficulty, a difficulty arising in connexion with the method of procedure (esp. legal). technical fix (U.S.), a solution produced by technological means (sometimes used with an implication of superficiality). technical hitch, an interruption or breakdown due to mechanical failure; loosely, an unexpected obstacle or snag. † technical verse, a verse intended to assist in memorizing something connected with a particular subject: cf. memoria technica (obs.).
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Technical verses are commonly composed in Latin: they are generally wretched ones, and often barbarous; but..utility is all that is aimed at. 1739Works Learned I. 139 He makes use of some Technical Lines or Verses. 1755Johnson Dict. Pref., Of the terms of art I have received such as could be found either in books of science or technical dictionaries. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 714 Torrington had..been sent to the Tower... A technical difficulty had arisen about the mode of bringing him to trial. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. xx. (1876) 265 Technical education, that is, the acquisition of scientific method and a knowledge of the principles and practice of the applied sciences. 1879Technical university [see buff n.7 1]. 1886S. A. Barnett in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. xlv. 246 Relief must..provide training. It may be in technical schools in town. 1886Times 20 May 5/5 Yesterday afternoon the foundation-stone of the Technical College, an extension of the existing Mechanics' Institute, was laid at Keighley. 1909Kelly's Directory of Oxf. 128/2 The City of Oxford Municipal Technical Schools..are secondary and technical schools under the regulation of the Board of Education... They consist of chemical and physical laboratories and lecture rooms, workshops, art rooms, and class rooms. 1940P. Fleming Flying Visit v. 37 [Hitler] remained an equally great man to-day and (despite a technical hitch) equally capable of fulfilling his mission. 1958‘R. Crompton’ William's Television Show v. 148 Couldn't we say there's been a technical hitch? 1962D. Lessing Golden Notebk. 528 It [sc. a film] was running slowly, because there was a technical hitch of some kind. 1971N.Y. Times 8 Sept. 44/2 In recent centuries the scientific revolution has provided much warrant for the notion of the ‘technical fix’, the idea that scientists or technologists can find an appropriate solution for every problem. 1978Nagel's Encycl.-Guide: China 318 The Technical Universities are in fact like polytechnic or engineering schools, and contain as many faculties as they do specialities. 1980Directory of Technical & Further Educ. (ed. 18) p. xvi, Technical colleges, so-called, are usually fairly old-established, with a range of courses for full-time and part-time, day release or block release students, traditionally in engineering, at the levels of Ordinary and often Higher National Certificate..or Diploma. 1980New Age (U.S.) Oct. 30/1 It greatly under-estimates the energy savings possible through technical fixes alone—that is, through well-known and presently economic technical measures that would have no significant effect on our lifestyles or economic output.
b. spec. said of words, terms, phrases, etc., or of their senses or acceptations; as, the technical terms of logic; the technical sense of ‘subject’ in logic.
[1634Jackson Creed vii. xxviii. §3 ‘The mercy of the Lord’ or of ‘the word of God’ is τὶ τεχνικὸν, that is a word or term whose full importance cannot be had from any ordinary lexicon, unless it be such as is proper unto divinity.] a1652[implied in technically adv.]. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v., The Terms of Art are commonly called Technical Words. 1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge p. iv, Avoiding as much as possible all technical Terms. 1778Jefferson Autobiog. App., Wks. 1859 I. 146 Preserving..the very words of the established law, wherever their meaning had been..rendered technical by usage. 1809Syd. Smith Charac. Fox Wks. 1859 I. 153/1 In a science like law there must be technical phrases, known only to professional men. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 420 No former philosopher had ever carried the use of technical terms to the same extent as Hegel.
c. transf. Of an author, a treatise, etc.: Using technical terms; treating a subject technically.
1779Mirror No. 48 ⁋1, I have since been endeavouring to make it a little less technical, in order to fit it more for general perusal. a1832Mackintosh Rev. of 1688 Wks. 1846 II. 295 The Crown lawyers... Powis was feebly technical, and Williams was offensively violent. 1896N. & Q. 8th Ser. IX. 160/2 [The book] is somewhat too technical for any one who is not a botanist.
d. Technically so called or regarded; that is such from the technical point of view. technical foul (Basketball), a foul which does not involve contact between opponents; also ellipt. as n.; technical knockout (Boxing), the termination of a fight by the referee on the grounds of one boxer's inability to continue (though not counted out), his opponent being declared the winner; abbrev. TKO, t.k.o.: see T 6.
1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 20 Permission for soldiers to retreat with technical honour. 1868[cf. technically]. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Apr. 10/3 Denial of a report from Saskatoon that in a boxing match in that city on March 24 Bill Barton, of Vancouver, had secured a technical knockout over Billy Mackenzie. 1934Webster s.v. Foul, Technical foul. 1958F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. 112 Technical Knock Out, the decision of the referee when stopping the contest in which one of the boxers, though not knocked out, is scarcely capable of proceeding. 1962Times 2 Aug. 3/3 The ball went to hand off his bat on seven occasions. Most were only technical chances [of a catch], although both Taylor and Swallow..would have held their respective catches more often than not. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald-Jrnl. 21 Apr. b1/3 Oscar Robertson sank a free throw on the technical, and Jon McGlocklin hit a long jumper after the Bucks put the ball in play. 1977Times 21 June 10/1 Other technical chances escaped McCosker and O'Keeffe, both at slip, as the ball..moved about off the seam. 1981Washington Post 17 Feb. d2/2 Before they sat down they had been assessed a technical foul... After Davis missed the first shot of the technical Skipper made the second.
e. So regarded according to a strict legal interpretation. Usu. in phr. technical assault.
1911Encycl. Brit. XX. 769/1 Finding himself non-suited in a court of law he commits a technical assault upon..some high legal functionary. 1914A. Harrison Kaiser's War 126 He [sc. an officer] may not accept an apology in the event of a technical assault. Thus a man who on leaving a café, for example, brushes against an officer, is technically liable to be cut down. 1920Wodehouse Damsel in Distress vi. 84 ‘You ought to have had the scoundrel arrested,’ he said vehemently. ‘It was a technical assault.’
4. Finance. Of, pertaining to, or designating a market in which prices are determined chiefly by internal factors (see also quot. 1962).
1909in Webster. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 17 July 14/1 A certain amount of support was attracted to individual favorites on the idea the list may have been oversold and was due for a technical comeback. 1962S. Strand Marketing Dict. 732 Technical position, a term applied to the various internal factors affecting the market; opposed to external forces such as earnings, dividends, political considerations and general economic conditions. Some internal factors considered in appraising the market's technical position include the size of the short interest, whether the market has had a sustained advance or decline without interruption, a sharp advance or decline on a small volume and the amount of credit in use in the market. 1981Times 22 July 22/6 Most sections of the market staged a technical rally. 1983Times 2 Apr. 10/5 The market remained technical, with positions being covered, and a marked reluctance shown to open new positions.
B. n. In pl. Technical terms or points; technicalities.
1790Bystander 352 Prone to..scold in technicals which they know not how to apply. 1825Eng. Life II. 254 The cramped and barbarous technicals of law. 1863D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood 236 The latter has a wall about him of self-confidence, ignorance of technicals.
Hence ˈtechnicalism, technical style, method, or treatment; addiction to technicalities; ˈtechnicalist, one versed in or addicted to technicalities; ˈtechnicalize v. trans., to make technical, give a technical meaning to; ˈtechnicalness, the quality of being technical, technicality.
1808Bentham Sc. Reform 80 Such ingenuity is not wanting to English-bred *technicalism. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish Pref. 111 Not frozen-up in dry technicalism, but dealing with the human reality attaching to an important Institution of free men.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 415 Not altogether a secret to the *technicalists. 1884Times 9 Feb., Every technicalist takes too narrow a view.
1852Lewis Methods Obs. & Reason. Politics I. 78 Words current in the language of ordinary life..were (if we may be allowed the expression) *technicalized.
1828–32Webster, *Technicalness.
▸ technical area n. Association Football a designated area around a team's dugout or bench, from where instruction may be given to players on the field.
1993Press Assoc. Newswire (Nexis) 26 Feb. The Board's meeting.., will also decide on whether touchline coaching, from a defined *technical area, can now be allowed. 1999Sunday People 26 Sept. 65/4 I've actually got a case pending at the moment because I encroached out of my technical area in the first game of the season. 2005Times 10 Jan. (Game section) 8/1 Keegan sat slumped on his seat..leaving Derek Fazakerley to bark orders from the technical area.
▸ technical support n. help or advice regarding a specialist matter; (Computing) the maintenance of computing equipment and advice regarding its use provided by a company for its employees, by a manufacturer for its customers, etc.; the department of a company responsible for providing such a service.
1856C. C. Schieferdecker Dr. C. G. G. Nittinger's Evils of Vaccination p. vii, I hope for moral and *technical support in this war against the Vaccine Medusa. 1914A. S. Dewing Corporate Promotions & Reorganizations xiv. 405 The strong technical support brought to the old International Cotton Mills Corporation..was further reinforced by placing much of the direct management in the hands of a firm of mill engineers. 1956Operations Res. 4 190 General technical support and supervision of the local teams are again the responsibility of the Defence Research Board. 1989Byte Aug. 1/2 (advt.) Every Dell system comes with a toll-free technical support line and self-diagnostic software. 2001F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 163 There are people working in Ivory Basements who forget what it's like for real people—without technical support standing by—to take a new computer out of its box and try valiantly to set it up. |