techno

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noun

tech·​no ˈtek-nō How to pronounce techno (audio)
often attributive
: electronic dance music that features a fast beat and synthesized sounds usually without vocals or a conventional popular song structure

techno-

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combining form

: technical : technological
technocracy

Examples of techno in a Sentence

Noun The club plays only techno.
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In April 2020, McGraw was cast as 10-year-old Cady James in Blumhouse/Atomic Monster’s techno horror-comedy, M3GAN. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025 Italian techno producer Deborah de Luca is off the HARD Summer 2025 lineup poster amid a public dispute regarding the font size of her name on the bill. Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 June 2025 The film is a dead-on skewering of the high-on-their-own supply megalomania that now afflicts so many members of the techno oligarchy, who unfortunately also control the levers of the world. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 May 2025 The very mid-Nineties sound is Springsteen exploring new beats, like most of his peers; this was the era of Paul McCartney’s techno project The Fireman, Bowie’s drum-and-bass album, and the Stones sampling Biz Markie. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for techno

Word History

Etymology

Noun

from techno- (as in techno-pop or techno-rock, styles of popular music utilizing electronically created sounds)

Combining form

from technology

First Known Use

Noun

1987, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of techno was in 1987

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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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