Meaning of technical term?

Question

I have to write a health article( about exercise and teams) and i have to select five technical terms from the article and define them. what do they mean by technical term? do they mean general words i don't understand or specific health and exercise words? please help :)

Answer 1

A word that has a specific meaning within a specific field of expertise.



http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technical_term



Technical terminology is the specialized vocabulary of any field, not just technical fields. The same is true of the synonyms technical terms, terms of art, shop talk and words of art, which do not necessarily refer to technology or art.[1][2][3] Within one or more fields, these terms have one or more specific meanings that are not necessarily the same as those in common use. Jargon is similar, but more informal in definition and use. Legal technical terms, often called (legal) terms of art or (legal) words of art, have meanings that are strictly defined by law.



Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/jargon-1

Answer 2

Technical terms are words that specialists in that field know, but the average people not in that field probably don't know. If your article is of general interest, it might be written for the average person and you might not find very many technical words.

Answer 3

Technical term does not mean general, it means a particular term within a certain industry. For example the technical term for printing more money is called "quantative easing".