often attributive
: electronic dance music that features a fast beat and synthesized sounds usually without vocals or a conventional popular song structure
: technical : technological
technocracy
Examples of techno in a Sentence
Noun
The club plays only techno.
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 May 2025
As the birthplace of Detroit techno, electronic music continues to thrive here, too, with clubs like TV Lounge, the world’s first techno museum, Exhibit 3000 (open by appointment only), and the annual Movement Music Festival celebrating the past, present, and future of dance music each May.
—AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
As Landry moves up the electronic music ranks, she’s considered towing the line between commercial dance bangers and industrial techno.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
As this happens, eerie techno is pumped in by sound designer and composer Palmer Hefferan while Natasha Katz’s lights and Hannah Wasilkeski’s projections flicker, subtly highlighting details in the classroom in a horror-adjacent scenographic move.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 15 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The grand slam of the festival; everyone either loves this apocalyptic techno drama, or loves the beginning, or loves the ending.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 May 2025
As the birthplace of Detroit techno, electronic music continues to thrive here, too, with clubs like TV Lounge, the world’s first techno museum, Exhibit 3000 (open by appointment only), and the annual Movement Music Festival celebrating the past, present, and future of dance music each May.
—AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
As Landry moves up the electronic music ranks, she’s considered towing the line between commercial dance bangers and industrial techno.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
As this happens, eerie techno is pumped in by sound designer and composer Palmer Hefferan while Natasha Katz’s lights and Hannah Wasilkeski’s projections flicker, subtly highlighting details in the classroom in a horror-adjacent scenographic move.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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