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technicality

 
American Heritage Dictionary:

tech·ni·cal·i·ty

(tĕk'nĭ-kăl'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ties.
  1. The quality or condition of being technical.
  2. Something meaningful or relevant only to a specialist: a legal technicality.

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Roget's Thesaurus:

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noun

    A small, often specialized element of a whole: detail, fine print, item, particular. See group.

Devil's Dictionary:

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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce


n.

In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - teknisk, teknisk udtryk

Nederlands (Dutch)
technisch detail, formeel punt

Français (French)
n. - (gén) détail technique, (gén, Admin) point de détail, (Jur) formalité, technicité

Deutsch (German)
n. - technischer Charakter, Fachausdruck, Formfehler, technisches Detail

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τεχνικότητα, (τεχνική ή διαδικαστική) λεπτομέρεια, τύπος

Italiano (Italian)
cavillo, tecnicalità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - assunto (m) técnico, termo (m) técnico, qualidade (f) ou caráter (m) técnico, tecnicidade (f), tecnicismo (m)

Русский (Russian)
формальность, техническая деталь

Español (Spanish)
n. - detalle técnico, tecnicidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - teknisk sida, teknik, teknisk term, fackuttryck, formalitet, teknisk detalj

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
专门性, 专门的事项, 学术性

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 專門性, 專門的事項, 學術性

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전문적 성질, 전문 용어, 전문적 방법

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 専門的性質, 専門的事項, 専門語

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ألصفه ألفنيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮טכניות, ביטוי טכני, נקודה או פרט טכני‬


 
 

 

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American Heritage Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Roget's Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 byHoughton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Devil's Dictionary. Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, 1911  Read more
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