technicality

1. N-PLURAL The technicalities of a process or activity are the detailed methods used to do it or to carry it out. (过程、活动的) 技术性细节

...the technicalities of classroom teaching. …课堂教学的技术性细节。

2. N-COUNT A technicality is a point, especially a legal one, that is based on a strict interpretation of the law or of a set of rules but that may seem unimportant compared to a larger issue. (尤指法律的) 技术性细则

The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality. 较早的裁决因法律上的一项技术性细则而遭到推翻。