Definitions

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  • adjective Pertaining to the functionality or operation of a technology; technical.
  • adjective Exhibiting, requiring, or characteristic of an interest in and/or proficiency with technology.
  • adjective of music Electronic or electronic-sounding.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to an aesthetic style which utilizes industrial or technological forms, materials, and themes.
  • noun slang A person interested in and/or skilled with technology.

Etymologies

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techno +‎ -oid

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Examples

  • Back in those early years, Massiv In Mensch could be characterized as technoid EBM, yet with their third effort in 2003, "Menschdefekt", their style bloomed.

    Side-Line news feed 2009

  • Back in those early years, Massiv In Mensch could be characterized as technoid EBM, yet with their third effort in 2003, "Menschdefekt", their style bloomed.

    Side-Line news feed 2009

  • Page, being a technoid of the first magnitude, was heavily involved in all this, and as he put it, “I wore out the decimal key on the typewriter.”

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • Page, being a technoid of the first magnitude, was heavily involved in all this, and as he put it, “I wore out the decimal key on the typewriter.”

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • Page, being a technoid of the first magnitude, was heavily involved in all this, and as he put it, “I wore out the decimal key on the typewriter.”

    What We Can Learn From Lefty 2009

  • It is either that the box is opened and the contents let loose on the world, like a cracker jack with the trots, or the box sucks in the world — a technoid machine — compacts all down like a Faraday compression of absolute skrunch no larger than a chicken bouillon cube if not an outright chip of a teeny weenie humanoid coprolite.

    Kracton Commons 2009

  • The main character could just as easily be a code breaker, or a computer expert, or other technoid and_with only minor tweaking of the script_ get caught up in the exact same series of conspiracy-driven events.

    The Gun Nut Takes Aim At Shooter 2007

  • He makes it a point to remember that most computer users, at their homes and small businesses, don't have high-speed phone connections, training seminars and technoid colleagues waiting in the wings to get their equipment back online again.

    Computing's Columbo 2008

  • This includes full-page print ads and a 30-second trailer with loud technoid music shown on 807 Cineplex Odeon screens.

    Hype Springs Eternal 2008

  • Hemos and CmdrTaco are Jeff Bates and Rob Malda, respectively, the self-described nerds from Holland, Mich., who founded the wildly popular Slashdot. org Web site, which is the white-hot center of English-language technoid discussions.

    Random Access Online: Slashdot Debuts In Japan 2007

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