Technical means to do with machines, science or the details of a craft. Technical support, a technical term, too technical.
It also means correct by the letter of the rules — a technical foul, a technical victory — where the point is that the substance may be otherwise. Technically speaking usually introduces a pedantic correction. The Greek techne means skill or craft.
1adjectivetechnicalTo do with machines, science or the details of a craft.
“We couldn't watch the film because of a technical problem with the projector.”
2adjectivecorrectCorrect by the letter of the rules.
“He was found not guilty on a technical point, although everyone knew he had done it.”
technical is a quality of detail.
Greek technikos means of art or craft, from techne, skill. Technique and technology come from the same craft.
Proto-Indo-European
*tetḱ-
Ancient Greek
τεχνικός
English, today
technical
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From technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from τέχνη (“skill”). For the late 20th-century origin of the noun sense (vehicle), see Wikipedia.
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