Conceptual vs Technical - What's the difference?
conceptual | technical |
Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination
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Of, or relating to conceptualism
Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any academic, legal, science, engineering, business, or the like terminology with specific and precise meaning or (frequently, as a degree of distinction) shades of meaning; specially appropriate to any art, science or engineering field, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
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(of a person) Technically-minded; adept with science and technology.
Relating to technique.
(securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.
A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 2, author=Jeffrey Gettleman, title=After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely, work=New York Times
, passage=“Individuals or groups of people who have trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns, known as ‘technicals ,’ should bring those battlewagons to Mogadishu’s old port,” he said.}}
(basketball) A technical foul: a violation of sportsmanlike conduct, not involving physical contact.
A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.
As adjectives the difference between conceptual and technical
is that conceptual is of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination while technical is of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any academic, legal, science, engineering, business, or the like terminology with specific and precise meaning or (frequently, as a degree of distinction) shades of meaning; specially appropriate to any art, science or engineering field, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.As a noun technical is
a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.conceptual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.
- The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
Derived terms
* aconceptual * conceptually * conceptual model * conceptual art * conceptual graph * conceptual network * preconceptualDescendants
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* *technical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]}}
- 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.
- The performance showed technical virtuosity, but lacked inspiration.
- The market had a technical rally, due to an oversold condition.
Coordinate terms
* (securities and other markets) fundamentalDerived terms
* technicality * technical analysis * technical drawing * technical knockout * technical meaning * technical sense * technical termNoun
(en noun)citation