technique

1 a practical method or art applied to some particular task

2 skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency" [syn: proficiency]

English

Noun

technique (plural: techniques)

1. a way of accomplishing a task that is not immediately obvious. Hence Technology, the study of or a collection of techniques.

Translations

• Chinese: 技术 (jìshù)
• Czech: technika
• Dutch: techniek
• Finnish: tekniikka
• French: technique
• German: Technik
• Ido: tekniko
• Italian: tecnica
• Korean: 기술 (gisul)
• Norwegian: teknikk
• Persian: (teknik)
• Polish: technika
• Russian: техника (tékhnika)
• Swedish: teknik

French

Pronunciation

• /tɛk.nik/
• /tEk.nik/

Noun

fr-noun f

1. technique, technology

Adjective

1. technical

A technique is a procedure used to accomplish a specific activity or task:

• Technology, the study of or a collection of techniques
• Skill, the ability to perform a task
• Scientific technique, any systematic method to obtain information of a scientific nature

Technique may also refer to:

• The Technique, the school newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Technique, the yearbook of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Technique (album), a 1989 album by British rock group New Order
• Technique (band), British female synth pop band in the 1990s
• "Technique" (song), an instrumental song by Linkin Park on their Hybrid Theory EP

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