technicalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin technicus +‎ -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”).

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɛk.nɪ.kəl/, [ˈtɛk.nɪ.kl̩]
• (Southern 米国発音, nonstandard) IPA: /ˈtɛt.nɪ.kəl/, [ˈtɛt.nɪ.kl̩]
• (米国発音, dialectal, informal) IPA: /ˈtɛ.nɪ.kəl/, [ˈtɛ.nɪ.kl̩]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/, [ˈtek.nɪ.kl̩]

形容詞

technical (comparative more technical, superlative most technical)

1. Specifically related to a particular discipline.

   Synonym: technic

   Particle physics uses the word spin in a technical sense.

   • 2025 December 5, John Fritze, “Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship”, in CNN‎:

     By granting the appeal, the court is directly taking on the merits of a controversy that it largely avoided earlier this year, when it sided with Trump on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts.

   1. (by extension) difficult to understand for those not specialized in this discipline.
      • 2025 April 22, Artem S. Tashkinov, Why Linux is not ready for the desktop (the final edition)‎:

        This part of the article is going to be quite technical but I cannot avoid it. It's a very complex topic.

   • 2006, Asaf Darr, Selling Technology, page 94:

     One example of the blurring of boundaries is the growing interdependence of social and technical skills. The sales engineers and the clients' engineers are all knowledge workers.

2. Of or related to technology.

   Synonyms: technological, technologic

   Since the 1940s there had been many technical advancements, and a Mach 3 interceptor was no longer a mere pipe dream.

3. (of a person) Technically minded; adept with science and technology.

   Kayla can probably get the printer working. She's technical like that.

4. Relating to, or requiring, technique.

   Synonym: technic

   The performance showed technical virtuosity, but lacked inspiration.

   • 2015, Robert Dineen, Kings of the Road: A Journey into the Heart of British Cycling:

     Its design apparently made for interesting racing, with a challenging climb, technical bends and a finishing straight long enough to produce exciting sprints.

   1. Requiring advanced techniques for successful completion.

      technical climbing

      • 2014, Stephen C. Sieberson, The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler‎:

        It was a technical ascent involving ropework, belays, and protection, and the exposure was great, but there were abundant hand and footholds, and the rock was sound.

5. (securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

   The market had a technical rally, due to an oversold condition.

6. In the strictest sense, but not practically or meaningfully.

   Crossing the front lawn of that house to get to the mailbox was a technical trespass.

反意語

• non-technical, nontechnical

等位語

• (securities and other markets): fundamental

派生語

関連する語

• technological
• technically
• technology

名詞

technical (countable and uncountable, plural technicals)

1. A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
   • 2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”, in New York Times‎:

     “Individuals or groups of people who have trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns, known as ‘technicals,’ should bring those battlewagons to Mogadishu’s old port,” he said.

2. (basketball) Ellipsis of technical foul.
3. (video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.
4. Ellipsis of technical school.
5. Ellipsis of technical course.
6. Ellipsis of technical examination.
7. (informal, countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of technical rehearsal.

参照

• Elizabeth J. Jewell, Frank Abate, Erin McKean, editors (2005), “technical”, in The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• "technical" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• “technical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• technical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• catchline, clean chit