Sekirov Dictionary

technoid

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

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Pertaining to the functionality or operation of a technology; technical.
- DLL is VB's runtime library, which allows VB programs to interact with Windows and do other low-level, behind-the-screens, technoid stuff. — 1996
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Exhibiting, requiring, or characteristic of an interest in and/or proficiency with technology.
- Some folks are put off by the technoid aura of the hard-core BBS network, but the fact is that laser printing — and desktop publishing in general — is rapidly evolving, cutting-edge territory. — 1987
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Electronic or electronic-sounding; resembling techno music.
- She hinted at this strategy on 2001's Vespertine, where her vocals pulsed along with music seemingly keyed to her own internal rhythms instead of getting lost in technoid tangles. — 2004
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Of or pertaining to an aesthetic style which uses industrial or technological forms, materials, and themes.
- We are looking into an area in which biomorphic and technoid objects seem to exist in a Utopian atmosphere. — 1978

noun1

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(slang) A person interested in or skilled with technology.
- Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core technoid." — 1984

forms

technoids · more technoid · most technoid

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