technicals

Weaponized civilian vehicles

Technicals are improvised military vehicles—typically pickup trucks mounted with heavy weapons like machine guns or anti-aircraft guns.

The term emerged from conflict zones where irregular forces lacked formal military equipment: Taliban technicals patrolled the highway.

In financial contexts, technicals refers to technical analysis indicators used to predict market movements: The technicals suggest a breakout is coming.

trading

charts

Visual data displays

RSI · stochastics · Bollinger · support · resistance · breakout · trendlines · moving averages · pivot points · volume

skills

programming

Writing software instructions

software · architecture · algorithms · networking · cybersecurity · troubleshooting · configuration · systems · hardware · specifications

cinematography

camera

Image capturing device

  • lensLight-focusing curved glass
  • framingStructural or contextual shaping
  • lightingArt of illuminating spaces

panning · tracking · dolly · steadicam · crane · zoom · focus · exposure · composition · wide-angle

Categories
Opposites
military vehicle formality

technicalsarmored personnel carriers

Shielded military troop vehicles

APCs · tanks · Humvees · armored cars

vehicle protection level

technicalsarmored vehicles

Plated military transport machines

tanks · armored personnel carriers

Phrases
Family

technical, technically, technicality, technicalities, non-technical

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