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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Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 May 2024
Editors’ Picks Indeed, Mills is techno’s Renaissance man.
—Mike Rubin, New York Times, 15 May 2024
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Noun
Many of the world’s biggest DJs are playing the festival, with Four Tet, Peggy Gou and hard techno star Sara Landry all making their EDC Las Vegas debuts this weekend.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 May 2024
Editors’ Picks Indeed, Mills is techno’s Renaissance man.
—Mike Rubin, New York Times, 15 May 2024
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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