technicality

[ tek-ni-kal-i-tee ]

/ ˌtɛk nɪˈkæl ɪ ti /

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

technical character.

the use of technical methods or terms.

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

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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.

Words nearby technicality

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How to use technicality in a sentence

Now that many of the technicalities have been ironed out, it’s up to the council members to decide if they want to fund the nearly half million dollars for the Roosevelt pool in the upcoming budget.
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Kinne was charged and tried but soon found herself acquitted on a legal technicality.
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This was my first time, so I didn’t know the technicalities of it.
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Uganda’s Constitutional Court later struck down the Anti-Homosexuality Act on a technicality.
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Also, there needs to be a way to address the various technicalities that go into SEO, but that’s for later.
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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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The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.
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She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
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They are—to fall back on the ancient technicality—Realists of a crude sort.
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Should he condemn himself and Doris Cleveland to heartache and loneliness because of a technicality?
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This I cal186l the Apology of technicality inspired by tyranny.
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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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