technics plural in form but singular or plural in construction: technologysense 1a
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Several security surveillance technic have been adopted.—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 Until that time, many users will continue to experience the technics of everyday life as bewildering, overwhelming, even hostile.—Longreads, 14 June 2017 This opera is made out of an entirely new musical technic . . .—Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017 This may be because the technic sets have lots of those really, really tiny pieces which are likely cheaper.—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2009
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noun derivative of technic "of the arts or sciences" (borrowed from New Latin technicus), after German Technik or French technique — more at technical entry 1
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