technicalia

Noun

technicalia pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) 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.1995, Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 210
   • If you don’t care about the technicalia of Internet mail, the next two paragraphs can be safely skipped.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
2. (plural, plural-only) 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.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
   • 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.1997, Donald E. Theall, James Joyce's Techno-Poetics, University of Toronto Press, →DOI, page 107