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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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
An early 90s techno remix of the theme, by the German band U96 (named after the submarine’s military designation) spent 13 weeks at number one of the German single charts and topped charts across much of Europe.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025
Techno-economic analysis To ensure that a power plant utilizing this technology would be profitable, SwRI conducted a techno-economic analysis, modeling both plant performance and hour-by-hour costs over a full year.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
This is a series that has always operated as absurd speculation, where broad metaphors about life and science get posited amid techno beats and car chases.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
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Noun
According to an official bio, the band formed in 1979 when Ball and Almond met as students at Leeds Polytechnic in England after Ball, a fan of the popular northern soul sound and German techno group Kraftwerk, moved from Blackpool to Leeds to study fine art.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
An early 90s techno remix of the theme, by the German band U96 (named after the submarine’s military designation) spent 13 weeks at number one of the German single charts and topped charts across much of Europe.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025
Techno-economic analysis To ensure that a power plant utilizing this technology would be profitable, SwRI conducted a techno-economic analysis, modeling both plant performance and hour-by-hour costs over a full year.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
This is a series that has always operated as absurd speculation, where broad metaphors about life and science get posited amid techno beats and car chases.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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