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tech·ni·cal

(tĕk′nĭ-kəl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to technique: a technical procedure; great technical skill in playing the violin.
2.
a. Having or demonstrating special skill or practical knowledge especially in a mechanical or scientific field: a technical adviser; technical expertise in digital photography.
b. Used in or peculiar to a specific field or profession; specialized: technical jargon.
c. Requiring advanced skills or specialized equipment: technical mountain climbing.
3. Of or relating to the practical, mechanical, or industrial arts or to the applied sciences: a technical institute.
4.
a. Of or relating to technology or technological studies: a technical breakthrough in the manufacture of solar panels; a technical journal.
b. Of or involving electronic or mechanical equipment: a broadcast interrupted by technical difficulties.
c. Of or relating to information technology: called technical support when the computers broke down.
5. Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science; scientific: technical data; a technical analysis.
6.
a. In strict conformance to a law, regulation, or procedure: was held on a technical charge of vagrancy.
b. Strictly or narrowly defined: "It was a Federal victory only in the technical sense that the Army of the Potomac was left in possession of the field" (Edwin C. Fishel).
c. Based on analysis or principle; theoretical rather than practical: a technical advantage.
7. Relating to or based on market indicators, such as trading volume and fluctuations in securities prices, rather than underlying economic factors such as corporate earnings, inflation, and unemployment: a technical analysis of market conditions.
n. Sports
A technical foul.
[From Greek tekhnikos, of art, from tekhnē, art; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]
tech′ni·cal·ly adv.
tech′ni·cal·ness n.
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Chung and Nation developed a rating scale to classify all the words in a university textbook into four categories according to their degree of technicalness. The two textbooks analysed for the study were in anatomy and applied linguistics, both fields in which Chung has university qualifications.
Thus, Chujo and Utiyama's (2006) work is promising, in that it may provide an automated alternative to Chung and Nation's (2003) rational basis for identifying degrees of technicalness in the vocabulary of a particular register.
The raw lists from the output of corpus analysis are likely to need editing according to various criteria, including decisions about which categories of words (in terms of Chung and Nation's (2003) scale of technicalness) should be included, and a checking procedure to ensure that frequent words also occur across a range of texts within the register.

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