What does «tecnicismo» mean in Spanish?

• Technical in nature, as opposed to common speech or popular language.
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "El tecnicismo de su vocabulario impide que la gente común lo entienda".
  
  
• A technical word that belongs to an art, science, profession or trade. Sometimes certain technical terms become generalized and are used by the mass public, but in many other cases they remain "hidden" within their scope. It is also common for the same word to have different meanings in different fields or professions. For example, capital in economics is not the same as capital in geography.
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "el idioma se ve invadido cada día más de tecnicismos".
  
  "La palabra hardware es un tecnicismo de la informática".

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