The Collaborative International Dictionary
nontechnical \nontechnical\ adj.
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not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.
Syn: untechnical.
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comprehensible to the general public; not requiring specialized training to be understood; as, written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language.
Syn: lay, plain, popular, unspecialized, untechnical.
Wiktionary
a. Not technical.
WordNet
adj. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language" [syn: untechnical] [ant: technical]
Usage examples of "nontechnical".
At no time did he bother to ponder that the nontechnical brain is not without its virtues, or that there are times and circumstances when it is worth dropping the short view of what is practicable for the sake of the long view of what is remotely possible.
The early planners of Westrex's scheme for nontechnical colonization, in itself a social experiment, were here now, and while they understood the broad basics of the project, they were hazy on specifics.
While there would be jobs for the nontechnical out there, there would also be nontechnical personnel for them.
Now I ask it again: can you prepare a memorandum telling me in nontechnical terms what sort of engineering changes you expect to hatch from these theoretical changes?
A straightforward string theory calculation reveals this answer, but no one has an intuitive, nontechnical explanation for the particular number that emerges.
The physicist Ernest Rutherford once said, in essence, that if you can't explain a result in simple, nontechnical terms, then you don't really understand it.
I think they know an awful lot about everything that is possible to use in a nontechnical society and even more about keeping things the way they are and under complete control.
Even then it was necessary to invent a tuning device which could be used by a nontechnical persona ten-year-old child, let us sayas easily as the dial selector which was characteristic of the commercial wired telephone of the era then terminating.
I'll give you a nontechnical summation of the overall results, and then if you have any specific questions now or later I'll try to answer them.
Basically, Ive already seen good candidates for all the nontechnical positions, except maybe the site supervisor, and that funny American Barry Watson is an excellent software engineer.