Meaning of technicalia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to most people; technicalities.
   plural, plural-only
2. Technical language; jargon.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“Copernicus himself made few observations but was steeped both in the technicalia of astronomical geometry and in the humanistic tradition.”

“If you don’t care about the technicalia of Internet mail, the next two paragraphs can be safely skipped.”

“[…] the notes often contain extended, technical arguments. Other readers may also find the notes of considerable interest, but I would suggest that if the annotative technicalia prove tiresome, the argument in the body of the text may remain both intelligible and useful, even if the notes are not consulted.”

“Yet in explaining deficits, the Audit Commission (AC) (2006) sought refuge in a narrow range of technicalia about the processes of budget-setting, on the one hand, and bland homilies about the nature of Boards, on the other.”

“[…]though much of the Latin loan material consists of military or governmental technicalia, there exists, in addition, a considerable stratum which provides insight into the lexical equipment of the more popular levels of society.”

“The technicalia underlying the description – such as the floodlights, the 'fluorescent', the 'spectrem', the prism, the multi-dimensionality, the reference to arteriosclerosis ('arthurious clayroses') – contextualize it within modern techno-culture.”

“Unusually for such technicalia, rebracketing is a good, solid English word, not Latin or Greek.”

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