Know-how

Definitions of Know-how
  1. noun
    the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something
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    Weisheit
    ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
    Methode, Vorgehen
    a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
    Analysefähigkeit, Urteilsfähigkeit, Urteilskraft, Urteilsvermögen
    the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
    Modell-Lösung, Modelllösung
    a method for solving a problem
    Regel, Regelwerk, System, Vorschrift, Übereinkunft
    a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
    type of:
    Anlage, Befähigung
    possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
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