technicality

[ tek-ni-kal-i-tee ]

/ ˌtɛk nɪˈkæl ɪ ti /

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noun, plural tech·ni·cal·i·ties for 2, 3.

the use of technical methods or terms.

something that is technical; a technical point, detail, or expression.

Words nearby technicality

technical drawing, technical foul, technical institute, technical knockout, technical sergeant, technicality, technician, technicolor, technicolour, technics, technikon

Origin of technicality

First recorded in 1805–15; technical + -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM technicality

hy·per·tech·ni·cal·i·ty, nouno·ver·tech·ni·cal·i·ty, noun, plural o·ver·tech·ni·cal·i·ties.

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Examples from the Web for technicality

It will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality.
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He was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted.
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The case was tossed out the following year on a technicality.
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The effect would be to knock down California's gay-marriage ban on a technicality, without affecting the rest of the country.
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I said “Britcom” earlier; Father Ted is only that on a technicality.
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Technicality is as little consonant with the one as with the other.
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of The United States|Edmund G. Ross
Even if the Cubs had claimed it on a technicality, even if we had really won the pennant once, that game had to be played now.
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I still think Jimmie Time and Boogles were beating the law—on a technicality.
Somewhere in Red Gap|Harry Leon Wilson
This I cal186l the Apology of technicality inspired by tyranny.
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She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
Tales and Fantasies|Robert Louis Stevenson

British Dictionary definitions for technicality

technicality

/ (ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

a petty formal point arising from a strict interpretation of rules, etcthe case was dismissed on a technicality

the state or quality of being technical

technical methods and vocabulary

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technicality

noun, plural tech·ni·cal·i·ties for 2, 3.

Words related to technicality

Words nearby technicality

Origin of technicality

OTHER WORDS FROM technicality

Examples from the Web for technicality

British Dictionary definitions for technicality

noun plural -ties