technical manual
Product operation document
A technical manual is a document providing detailed instructions for operating, maintaining, or repairing equipment or systems.
Technical manuals range from consumer product guides to military specifications for aircraft maintenance.
The term often implies thoroughness and precision: The technical manual runs to eight hundred pages.
Informally shortened to tech manual.
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