0 a detail or small matter: --
He was disqualified from the competition on a technicality.
1 a decision based only on a specific rule or rules and not on any other consideration: --
Combining a rather obscure logical technicality, which has only yielded an afflictive literature, with one of the major discoveries of last century is unexpected.
The main lexical characteristic of the law is large-scale technicality.
To demonstrate our statement requires the use of some mathematical technicalities which are lengthy and not appropriate to the present journal.
They could probably be removed at the expense of greater technicalities in the proofs.
I need to make a qualification which can be ignored by anyone not interested in technicalities.
This avoids some technicalities and would make adding a "not equals" primitive simpler (something definitely worth doing if negation is supported).
In their legal discussions, the rabbis piled up legal technicalities, reducing the irksome biblical command to a dead letter.
We will ignore such technicalities for the sake of simplicity.
