{
  "id": "technical.skill",
  "term": "technical",
  "sense": "skill",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 23,
  "arena": "language",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a skill that involves applying knowledge through a specific method",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "training.skill",
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "skill.ability",
      "specific.detail",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the trained ability uses knowledge in a particular way to perform a task",
    "novel_properties": [
      "method-specific application",
      "integrated know-how",
      "purposeful execution"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's corrective optics were installed during STS-61 in 1993 to fix its blurred vision.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Chess masters recall actual game positions accurately by recognizing patterns from years of study and play.",
      "domain": "cognitive"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's version control history shows thousands of precise commits applying documented coding standards.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "training.skill",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "common.general",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "technical"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "added missing components that the original definition implicitly relied on; tightened definition to avoid term inflection and better align with components"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-technical.skill"
}