Definition of: technical

(tek′ni·kəl) adjective
1. Pertaining to some particular art, science, or trade.
2. Peculiar to a specialized field of knowledge.
3. Of or pertaining to the mechanical arts.
4. Employing a specialized vocabulary, as in a treatise or textbook.
5. Considered in terms of an accepted body of rules and regulations: a technical defeat.
6. Designating a money market in which prices are for the most part determined by speculation or manipulation. [<Gk. technikos <technē art]
—tech′ni·cal·ly adverb
—tech′ni·cal·ness noun