English Dictionary

technicality

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The quality or state of being technical. / That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.

日本語の意味

技術的である性質・状態 / 専門分野や職業などに固有の、技術に関する事項・特徴

The committee dismissed the proposal on a minor technicality, though its core idea was sound.

委員会は提案の核心は妥当であったにもかかわらず、些細な技術的な点を理由にその提案を却下した。

意味（1）

The quality or state of being technical.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

意味（2）

That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.

the technicalities of the sect

意味（3）

A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.

These are some of the Reversible Errors on which a new trial can be had and are often spoken of by misinformed business men as technicalities, as when they say a certain gangster got off on a technicality or got a new trial on a technicality.

technicalities （ plural ）