technicaliaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌtɛknɪˈkeɪli.ə/

名詞

technicalia pl (plural only)

1. Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to most people; technicalities.
   • 1995, Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

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

   • 2001, Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, Revised edition, CA: O’Reilly, →ISBN, page 39:

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

   • 2004, John D. Dunne, Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy, MA: Wisdom Publications, →ISBN, page 13:

     […] 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.

   • 2007, Calum Paton, “The Politics of NHS Deficits and NHS Re-form”, in Alison Han, editor, Health policy and politics, Hampshire: Ashgate, →ISBN, page 18:

     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.

2. Technical language; jargon.
   • 1981, Michael McCormick, “Greek Hagiography and Popular Latin in Late Antiquity: The Case of *Biberaticum-βιβερατικόν”, in The American Journal of Philology, volume 102, number 2, →DOI, page 157:

     […] 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.

   • 1997, Donald E. Theall, James Joyce's Techno-Poetics, University of Toronto Press, →DOI, page 107:

     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.

   • 2015 August 13, Damion Searls, “Burgers and Copters, Shelves and Pants”, in The Paris Review‎, archived from the original on 5 July 2017:

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

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