technical
/ˈtɛk.nɪk.əl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or related to technology.
adj
Technically minded; adept with science and technology.
adj
In the strictest sense, but not practically or meaningfully.
Example Sentences
- "Particle physics uses the word spin in a technical sense."
- "By granting the appeal, the court is directly taking on the merits of a controversy that it largely avoided earlier this year, when it sided with Trump on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts."
- "One example of the blurring of boundaries is the growing interdependence of social and technical skills. The sales engineers and the clients' engineers are all knowledge workers."
- "This part of the article is going to be quite technical but I cannot avoid it. It's a very complex topic."
- "Since the 1940s there had been many technical advancements, and a Mach 3 interceptor was no longer a mere pipe dream."
- "Kayla can probably get the printer working. She's technical like that."
Etymology
From Late Latin technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”). For the late 20th-century origin of the noun sense (vehicle), see Wikipedia.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *tetḱ-, τεχνικός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɛk.nɪk.əl/
- British English: /ˈtɛk.nɪk.əl/