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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being technical.
- noun Something meaningful or relevant only to a specialist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Technicalness; technical character or quality.
- noun That which is technical, or peculiar to any science, art, calling, sect, etc.; a technical expression or method: as, legal technicalities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.
- noun That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the quality or state of being
technical - noun that which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a detail that is considered insignificant
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Examples
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The propaganda value of letting a “terrorist” off on a technicality is actually higher than the propaganda value of generating some ad hoc solution that has a 100% conviction rate.
Matthew Yglesias » Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil 2010
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Amber Alert Tuesday night on what they call a technicality.
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Beqaj said Bresnan's application was rejected on what he called a technicality, because the company did not offer a 20 percent match of its own funds to help finance the project.
billingsgazette.com 2010
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Beqaj said Bresnan's application was rejected on what he called a technicality, because the company did not offer a 20 percent match of its own funds to help finance the project.
billingsgazette.com 2010
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This kind of technicality is just what would catch the imaginations of the wingnuts who natter on about claims of his not being born in the U.S. etc.
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This little technicality is often lost when talking about housing.
Housing's P/E Ratio, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The day we get to dismiss the drugging and raping of a minor and subsequent refusal to face punishment for thirty years a "minor technicality" is the day the justice system means absolutely nothing to rape victims around the globe.
The Mondays 2009
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The day we get to dismiss the drugging and raping of a minor and subsequent refusal to face punishment for thirty years a "minor technicality" is the day the justice system means absolutely nothing to rape victims around the globe.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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` ` The fact that we don't get in on a technicality is something we'll have to live with. ''
USATODAY.com 2008
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For me, the fact that Bush/Cheney could undo the old EO and fix this technicality is more of a reason this is NOT a big deal.
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- 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
- technicalness
- thing
- thing of naught
- type
- vocation
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- banality
- bestiality
- brutality
- centrality
- collegiality
- conditionality
- constitutionality
- criminality
- cyclicality
- eventuality
- fatality
- functionality
- heterosexuality
- illegality
- immorality
- immortality
- impartiality
- individuality
- informality
- instrumentality
- materiality
- mentality
- nationality
- originality
- personality
- plurality
- principality
- proportionality
- punctuality
- rationality
- seasonality
- sentimentality
- speciality
- venality
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