Definition of techno
: electronic dance music that features a fast beat and synthesized sounds usually without vocals or a conventional popular song structure
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Examples of techno in a Sentence
The club plays only techno.
Recent Examples of techno from the Web
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Now, in 2018, the familiar techno-utopian pronouncements of the 1990s and ’00s seem not just wrong but like a bad joke.
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Two stages pumped out music starting at 2 p.m. until 11 p.m., with the house, techno and trance genres of EDM (electronic dance music) on the playlist all day.
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The good news for dance fans is the volume of house and techno music that has consumed the dance tents.
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By comparison, Hopkins’s version of minimalism marks him as a classicist, whose musical experiments often find elegant ways to update the old templates of house and techno.
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Tesla’s first vehicle, produced from 2008 to 2012, was the Roadster, a two-seat techno-bauble with a base sticker price of $92,000 that was marketed as being able to go from 0 to 60 in four seconds.
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More than a dozen groups have announced plans to stage counter-protests Sunday, including artists and a coalition of Berlin music clubs hoping to ‘‘blow away’’ AfD with loud techno beats.
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This globe-trotting DJ and producer has a celestial vibe that draws from new wave, classic Detroit techno and more.
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The creators have infused it with modern rhythms, as techno beats wind their way into Victorian dances.
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Origin and Etymology of techno
techno- (as in techno-pop or techno-rock, styles of popular music utilizing electronically created sounds)
Origin and Etymology of techno-
technology
TECHNO Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of techno for English Language Learners
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: a type of electronic dance music that has a fast beat
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Definition of techno- for English Language Learners
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: technical : technological
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