technicalia
noun/ˌtɛknɪˈkeɪli.ə/
Etymology
By surface analysis, technical + -ia (“a collection of things”). Evidently modelled after other nouns descended from substantivized Latin -ālis adjectives in the neuter plural: marginalia, paraphernalia, generalia, regalia, militaria, etc.
- derived from -ālis adjectives in the neuter plural: marginalia
Definitions
Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to…
Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to nonspecialists; technicalities.
- 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.
Technical language
Technical language; jargon.
- […]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.
- Unusually for such technicalia, rebracketing is a good, solid English word, not Latin or Greek.
The neighborhood
- neighbortechnicality
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for technicalia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA