From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Hard science, Linguisticstechnicaltech‧ni‧cal /ˈteknɪkəl/ ●●●S2W2AWL adjective1machinesHconnected with knowledge of how machines work
Our staff will be available to give you technical support.
I have no technical knowledge at all.technical training2 →technical problem/hitch3languageSL technical language is language that is difficult for most people to understand because it is connected with one particular subject or used in one particular job
I didn’t understand all the technical terms.4details/rulesRULE/REGULATIONrelating to small exactdetails or rules that say how a system should work
He called for the legislation to be delayed on a technical point.
This is a technical violation of the treaty.5skillsWAY/METHOD technical ability is the ability to do the difficult things that you have to do in order to play music, do a sport etc
a young player with a lot of technical abilityExamples from the Corpustechnical• Both Ashton and MacMillan take the technicalaspects of their choreography very seriously.• Other students were trapped between self-reliance and technicaldependency.• technicalexperts• He is remembered there for his technicalfeats.• a technicalfoul• And Whitehurst suggested that, when technicalinstruments produced conflicting results, labguidelines at times were unclear on how to proceed.• No one here has the technical knowledge to fix the copier.• Jurors must deal with many technicallegal questions.• Many books on furniture making are too technical or requireartisticskills.• In some ways the job had been a good fit, since he was clearly the best technical problem-solver in the organization.• The next step is to make technicalprogress endogenous to the model.• The Government's position is that a tax-raising power in the technicalsense inevitably means that taxes will be raised.• As a quarterback, Elway has excellenttechnical skills.• technicaltrainingtechnical training• They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training.• Teaching and technical training are on the agenda, and they are long-termtasks.• The technical trainingdepartment is currently working on the issue of competency assurance which is required by the new Safety Case Regulations.• Your starting point will be a comprehensiveassessment of the area's technical training needs.• In exile, members are involved in solidarity work and are implementingeducational and technical trainingprogrammes with the refugeecommunities.• Since then a sound cabin has been built and technical trainingundertaken to maximise the effectiveness of the broadcasts.technical terms• I have purposely avoided the use of technical terms.• I now introduce another of Axelrod's evocativetechnical terms.• The first is that of ensuring that your reader knows which words are the technical terms.• Written on the boxes is all manner of strangetitles, fantasticclaims and arcanetechnical terms.• A few more technical terms are essential, and then we can discard the whole jargon-ridden dictionary of genetics.• The second, more difficult problem is that of ensuring that your reader understands what your technical termsmean.• Avoid technical terms or phrases which, although familiar to you, may be unknown to your listener.• In purely technical terms, this is all but a truism.From Longman Business Dictionarytechnicaltech‧ni‧cal1 /ˈteknɪkəl/ adjectiveconnected with practical knowledge, skills, or methods, especially in industrial or scientific workThe manual contains all the technical information on the product.Our staff provide technical support 7 days a week.We have appointed a new technical director. —technically adverbIs the project technically feasible?a technically advanced industrytechnicaltechnical2 noun1technicals [plural]FINANCEsigns that show the way prices are moving on the stock market and that help people to calculate what will happen to the price of shares etc in the futureThe market technicals gave negative sell signals on Thursday.2[countable] another name for tech2Origintechnical(1600-1700)Greektechnikos“of art, skillful”, from techne“art, skill”
