technical

& s. [Gr. technikos belonging to the arts; technē =art.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to the mechanical arts, or to any particular art, science, profe ion, handicraft, busine , or the like. "All the dispute is made to turn upon logical niceties, or metaphysical subtleties about the nature of things confe edly mysterious, or rather upon the meaning of technical terms and names, such as individual, ."Water land: Works, v. 346. B. As subst. ( pl .): Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art or science; technicalities; technics.