Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - technicality

(technicalities) 1. The technicalities of a process or activity are the detailed methods used to do it or to carry it out. ...the technicalities of classroom teaching. N-PLURAL: usu N of n 2. A technicality is a point, especially a legal one, that is based on a strict interpretation of the law or of a set of rules. The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality. N-COUNT