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  techno

  noun

  a style of disco music characterized by very fast synthesizer rhythms, heavy use of samples, and a lack of melody.
• techno-
  techno-

  a combining form borrowed from Greek where it meant “art,” “skill,” used in the formation of compound words with the meaning “technique,” “technology,” etc..

techno

¹ American  

[tek-noh] / ˈtɛk noʊ /

noun

1. a style of disco music characterized by very fast synthesizer rhythms, heavy use of samples, and a lack of melody.

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techno- ² American  

1. a combining form borrowed from Greek where it meant “art,” “skill,” used in the formation of compound words with the meaning “technique,” “technology,” etc..

   technography.

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techno- ¹ British  

combining form

1. craft or art

   technology

   technography

2. technological or technical

   technocracy

3. relating to or using technology

   technophobia

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techno ² British  

/ ˈtɛknəʊ /

noun

1. a type of very fast dance music, using electronic sounds and fast heavy beats

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Etymology

Origin of techno¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Origin of techno-²

Combining form representing Greek téchnē art, skill. See technic

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Example Sentences

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But getting dressed required parental assistance, the bass pulsing off the sandstone was a techno remix of “The Wheels on the Bus,” and the drinks were apple juice and formula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

North London-born Orbit, who real name was William Wainwright, helped to reinvigorate Madonna's career in 1998 with the album Ray of Light, which blended electronic dance music and ambient techno with pop and trip-hop.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The city’s music, famed for rough-hewn virtuosity from blues to soul to techno, is the spring that waters “Adversity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Around the time Corriveau and Corley were seeing traction with the early iteration of their dual restaurant-and-arcade concept, a cultural phenomenon rose in nascent techno and house scenes of cities from Detroit to Ibiza: raves.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Dings, pings, bells, whoops, and techno music filled the air.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

But this does not mean, as shortsighted critics insist, that striving to send humans to live and work in space must be an escapist techno- fantasy abdicating our stewardship over Earth.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2022

Several hundred young hedonists join him in dancing wild tribal stomps as strobe lights flash and 50,000 watts of techno- house music blast from the speakers of a New York City nightclub called the Shelter.

From Time Magazine Archive

From skeptical techno- Philistines, they had been transformed into fully rated Internauts, ready and eager to navigate the digital future.

From Time Magazine Archive

The techno- rockers EMF have stirred up a fuss with their single Lies, in which they sample the voice of Mark David Chapman, the John Lennon assassin, reciting lyrics from Lennon's last album.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Let me ask you a question, you're the techno- freak."

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

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