technicals
- 1The fine technical points or specific details of how something works or is carried out.
She loves the big ideas but glazes over once the conversation turns to the technicals.
The manual covers the technicals of installation in its final chapter.
Similartechnicalities, details, specifics
- 2Plural of technical.
Both technicals came in the closing minutes and decided the game.
Columns of technicals rolled toward the front line at dawn.
Note
The plural counts several unrelated things. Most uses of the singular noun are shortenings: technical foul, technical school, technical course, technical examination. The plural simply inherits whichever phrase was clipped. It also counts gun-mounted pickup trucks and the counter moves of certain fighting games. Nothing in the form tells them apart; talk of games, classrooms or front lines does that work.
- 3Chart-based data on price and trading patterns that investors use to forecast a security's future movements.
The stock's technicals suggest a breakout above its recent high.
Analysts warned that the technicals were weakening even as earnings stayed strong.
Oppositefundamentals
Note
Market talk sets this word against its opposite number, fundamentals: what a company is worth on one side, how its price chart behaves on the other. The two can disagree, and investors say so in exactly those terms, as in awful fundamentals, great technicals, a stock trending upward anyway. It is used in the plural with a plural verb: the technicals are improving.
technicals is a form of technical
technical, noun: A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it, used as an improvised fighting vehicle. Full entry
- Forms
- technicaltechnicals plural
- Spelling
- technical → technicals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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