Technically
(Tech"nic*al*ly) adv. In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in
any art, business, or profession.
Technicalness
(Tech"nic*al*ness), n. The quality or state of being technical; technicality.
Technicals
(Tech"nic*als) n. pl. Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or
profession; technical terms; technics.
Technicist
(Tech"ni*cist) n. One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.
Technicological
(Tech`ni*co*log"ic*al) a. Technological; technical. [R.] Dr. J. Scott.
Technicology
(Tech`ni*col"o*gy) n. Technology. [R.]
Technics
(Tech"nics) n. The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.
Technique
(Tech`nique") n. [F.] Same as Technic, n.
Technism
(Tech"nism) n. Technicality.
Technologic
(Tech`no*log"ic) a. Technological.
Technological
(Tech`no*log"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. technologique.] Of or pertaining to technology.
Technologist
(Tech*nol"o*gist) n. One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of
arts.
Technology
(Tech*nol"o*gy) n. [Gr. an art + - logy; cf. Gr. systematic treatment: cf. F. technologie.]
Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important
manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Technology is not an independent science, having a set of doctrines of its own, but consists of applications
of the principles established in the various physical sciences (chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, etc.) to
manufacturing processes. Internat. Cyc.
Techy
(Tech"y) a. [From OE. tecche, tache, a habit, bad habit, vice, OF. tache, teche, a spot, stain,
blemish, habit, vice, F. tache a spot, blemish; probably akin to E. tack a small nail. See Tack a small
nail, and cf. Touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Tectibranch
(Tec`ti*branch) n. (Zoöl.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
Tectibranchia
(||Tec`ti*bran"chi*a) n. pl. [NL.] Same as Tectibranchiata.
Tectibranchiata
(||Tec`ti*bran`chi*a"ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tectus (p. p. of tegere to cover) + Gr. a gill.]
(Zoöl.) An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of
the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and
often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.
Tectibranchiate
(Tec`ti*bran"chi*ate) a. [L. tectus (p. p. of tegere to cover) + E. branchiate.] (Zoöl.)
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. — n. A tectibranchiate
mollusk.
Tectly
(Tect"ly) adv. [L. tectus covered, fr. tegere to cover.] Covertly; privately; secretly. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Tectology
(Tec*tol"o*gy) n. [Gr. a carpenter + -logy.] (Biol.) A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the
science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism
