What is the difference between technical and technology?
technical | technology | Related terms |
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=4 * 2006 , Asaf Darr, Selling Technology (page 94)
(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.
(uncountable) The organization of knowledge for practical purposes.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= All the different and usable technologies developed by a culture or people.
Technology is a related term of technical.
As nouns the difference between technical and technology
is that technical is a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it while technology is the organization of knowledge for practical purposes.As an adjective 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.technical
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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
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(wikipedia technology)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}