Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

technics

British  
/ ˈtɛknɪks /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) the study or theory of industry and industrial arts; technology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

And the hand-cranked special effects of Buster Crabbe's day have given way to Star Wars technics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Curriculums increasingly stress mathematics, science, aeronautics, agriculture, technics, war-area languages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby."

From Time Magazine Archive

But a multitude of detailed advances were made in technics itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dissections in Paris used to be performed by the barber-surgeons, as a rule rather ignorant men, who knew little of their work beyond the barest outline of the technics of dissection.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training