technical means

collocation in English

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technical
adjective
uk
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/
relating to the knowledge, machines, or methods used in science ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk
/miːn/us
/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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(Definition oftechnicalandmeanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Methods for design of corresponding technical means are developed.
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Risks were calculated and managed using technical means, rather than by restricting residents' freedom of action through the imposition of rules and sanctions.
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Desired goals are taken to be reachable to the extent that they are feasible within the conceptual and technical means at hand.
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The private home used technical means to manage the potential risk surrounding another activity, namely that of bathing.
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What must be important in this respect is not the equality as it can be measured by technical means, for instance an income distribution.
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Hotels cannot prevent guests smoking in the privacy of their bedrooms and must manage the risk of fire, relying on technical means to minimise it.
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For the private home residents who chose to bathe without help, technical means were again used to manage the risks involved.
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The requirement that the domains of the environments be the same is a technical means of ensuring uniqueness of fresh names.
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The proof of this result is more involved and requires additional technical means.
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Here, the potential strength and richness of such an approach have to be achieved by other technical means.
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Archaeologists are always and understandably eager to amplify the amount of information we can squeeze from material artefacts through technical means.
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I argue that the prevailing momentum of early molecular biology resided in creating the technical means for an extracellular representation of intracellular configurations.
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The world outside, completely erased from consciousness by technical means, can now be simulated by musical means.
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As noted above, we now have, or will have very soon the technical means to realise these multiple-media compositions.
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Critique of existing research, and the incorporation of greater complexity and generality, depends on possessing of the technical means for doing so.
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Robot grasping proposed solution uses simple technical means (based on an ordinary linkage and one drive motor in the main version) and requires no sensing.
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By way of demonstration of the wide variety of expressive devices and the technical means displayed within the set, two further examples will have to suffice.
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Only in this way will the protagonists of repair be guided in their search for the optimal treatment and the best technical means of achieving it.
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Net music offering this kind of interaction can be based on humans interacting via the technical means of the network with other humans or exclusively with machines.
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A headmaster listened to my account of how older people in my country were kept alive at all costs and by any technical means, even without their consent.
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