tactical

English

Etymology

From tactic +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

tactical (not comparable)

1. of or relating to tactics
   • 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.

2. of or relating to military operations that are smaller or more local than strategic ones

   a tactical nuclear weapon

3. adroit, skilful or ingenious
4. (firearms) having a military appearance, typically with accessories such as a bipod, adjustable stock, detachable magazine or black coloration

Derived terms

• battalion tactical group
• tacnuke
• tactical air commander
• tactical air control center
• tactical area
• tactical assembly area
• tactical call sign
• tactical center
• tactical combat
• tactical command
• tactical concept
• tactical contact
• tactical control
• tactical coordinator
• tactical deception
• tactical diameter
• tactical diversion
• tactical evacuation
• tactical group
• tactical information
• tactical intelligence
• tactical level of war
• tactical loading
• tactical locality
• tactically
• tactical map
• tactical mining
• tactical obstacle
• tactical officer
• tactical operation
• tactical pen
• tactical range
• tactical realism
• tactical reconnaissance
• tactical reserve
• tactical role-playing game
• tactical RPG
• tactical security
• tactical support
• tactical system
• tactical transport
• tactical troops
• tactical unit
• tactical vehicle
• tactical vote
• tactical voting
• tactical warning
• tactical weapon
• tacticool

 

Translations

of or relating to tactics

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մարտավարական (hy) (martavarakan), տակտիկական (hy) (taktikakan)
• Asturian: tácticu
• Azerbaijani: taktiki
• Belarusian: такты́чны (taktýčny)
• Bulgarian: такти́чески (taktíčeski)
• Catalan: tàctic (ca)
• Czech: taktický (cs) m
• Danish: taktisk
• Dutch: tactisch (nl)
• Esperanto: taktika
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: taktinen (fi)
• French: tactique (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: taktisch (de)
• Greek: τακτικός (el) (taktikós)
• Hungarian: taktikai (hu)
• Irish: beartach, oirbheartaíochta, oirbheartaíoch, teaicticiúil
• Italian: tattico (it) (all senses)
• Kazakh: тактикалық (taktikalyq)
• Latvian: taktisks
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: taktyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: tático (pt)
• Romanian: tactic (ro) m or n
• Russian: такти́ческий (ru) (taktíčeskij)
• Spanish: táctico (es), estratégico
• Swedish: taktisk (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: такти́чний (taktýčnyj)

Noun

tactical (plural tacticals)

1. (computing) A combinator of proof tactics.
   • 2013, Adam Chlipala, Certified Programming with Dependent Types:

     The repeat that we use here is called a tactical, or tactic combinator. The behavior of repeat t is to loop through running t, running t on all generated subgoals, running t on their generated subgoals, and so on. When t fails at any point in this search tree, that particular subgoal is left to be handled by later tactics.

2. A private war reenactment event involving mock battles or skirmishes.