technical

  1. Adjective.  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.
  2. Adjective.  (slang) A secretarial way of saying "specific".
  3. Adjective.  (context, of a person) (rfdef, lang en) .
  4. Noun.  A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
  5. Noun.  (basketball) A technical foul: a violation of sportsmanlike conduct, not involving physical contact.

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