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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a technical aid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a tool, resource, or support that assists in technical tasks or processes.
Example: "The company provided a technical aid to help employees navigate the new software system."
Alternatives: "a technical resource" or "a technical support tool".
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After scientific analysis conducted in November, the governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, ruled that Pistorius's J-shaped blades were a "technical aid," and could not be used in an able-bodied competition.
After 168 world records were broken by competitive swimmers wearing such suits, Fina (Federation Internationale de Natation), the sport's international governing body, banned "non-textile" suits in 2010 for being a technical aid that give competitors an unfair advantage – so-called "technology doping".
Built as a technical aid to sailors, their architects often unknown, France's lighthouses have increasingly become a symbol of the nature of the country, of its "patrimoine," or patrimony — a word that here carries a spiritual quality of patriotism and nationhood.
In the development of materials and technologies that used to serve strictly as a technical aid, but gradually acquired aesthetical meaning.
Nurses, in general, seemed to have embraced the idea of using the computer as a technical aid in their daily work, and also mentioned advantages and possibilities with the computer, for example, advantages for patients completing the test.
We used of the Atlas-Ti 5.0 software program as a technical aid in the coding stage, enabling to code large amounts of text and share the data among the research team.
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Forty-two questions were used to assess the level of difficulty in carrying out activities without any technical aid or personal assistance.
"The I.A.A.F. has a rule which states that any technical aids which give an athlete an advantage over another are prohibited," Nick Davies, the organization's director of communications, said in a telephone interview from Monaco.
A number of proposals are being zealously canvassed: coordination of capital exports; a programme of technical aid; a common policy for gradual enlargement of quotas on imports from the young industrial countries.
Endowed with a budget of up to €20 million until 2020, the PSF provides "a sort of technical aid," E.U. research commissioner Carlos Moedas told reporters.
Callister [ 43] has highlighted the importance for the mother to share the delivery experience with a professional with expertise in technical aid as a preventive and therapeutic action.
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