TECHNICALITY - 8 definitions found
technicality n 1: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle, triviality] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) technicality noun (plural -ties) Date: 1814 1. something technical; especially a detail meaningful only to a specialist <a legal technicality> 2. the quality or state of being technical Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary technicality (technicalities) 1. The technicalities of a process or activity are the detailed methods used to do it or to carry it out. ...the technicalities of classroom teaching. N-PLURAL: usu N of n 2. A technicality is a point, especially a legal one, that is based on a strict interpretation of the law or of a set of rules. The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality. N-COUNT English Explanatory Dictionary technicality ˌteknɪˈkælɪtɪ n. (pl. -ies) 1 the state of being technical. 2 a technical expression. 3 a technical point or detail (was acquitted on a technicality). Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Technicality \Tech`ni*cal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Technicalities. 1. The quality or state of being technical; technicalness. 2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. The technicalities of the sect. --Palfrey. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 59 Moby Thesaurus words for "technicality": a little thing, area, bag, complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness, cup of tea, entanglement, field, forte, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, intricacy, intricateness, involution, involvement, jargon word, line, long suit, main interest, manner, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, metier, minor matter, naught, nihility, no great matter, nothing, nothing in particular, nothing to signify, nullity, paltry affair, perplexity, pet subject, peu de chose, pursuit, ramification, rien du tout, scarcely anything, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, strong point, style, subtlety, tanglement, technical term, thing, thing of naught, type, vocation, way, weakness |
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