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  • prefix Used to form words relating to technology

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek τέχνη ("skill")

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Examples

  • Here, a song which starts out as if it's threatening to be a gloomy Pendulum-style nosebleeder brilliantly builds into upbeat techno-pop.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • Here, a song which starts out as if it's threatening to be a gloomy Pendulum-style nosebleeder brilliantly builds into upbeat techno-pop.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • The insistence that patients must be treated in "techno- centric" hospitals by western-trained physicians is, to his mind, simply not viable in rural India, where lack of transport and an inability to pay for treatment often mean that sick people stay away.

    The Guardian World News Elizabeth Day 2011

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