technical and operational definitions

• technical definition 


  process by which one assigns a precise or exact meaning to a term
• technical definition


  meaning is usually taken from a dictionary, glossary of terms, or thesaurus
• operational definition


  articulation of statement of procedures used in defining the terms of a process
• technical definition


  explains a concept using precise language and specific terms
• operational definition


  defines a concept by describing how it's measured/observed in practice
• technical definition


  weight - a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person/thing
• operational


  weight - numbers that appear when an object is placed on a weighing scale
• technical


  happiness - state of being happy
• operational


  happiness - number of times a person smiles in a day
• technical


  hunger - physiological state that results from insufficient intake of nutritionally adequate food
• operational


  hunger - self-reported time since the last meal, typically recorded in hours
• technical


  productivity - efficiency of production as measured by the ratio of output produced
• operational 


  productivity - number of tasks/products completed within a time frame