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tech

  • /tɛk/
  • [tʰɛk]

Sounds like TEK · Rhymes with -ɛk

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Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

noun techs

  1. countable, informal, uncountable Technology. I can't understand all this new tech.
  2. countable, informal, uncountable Technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet. Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.
  3. countable, informal, uncountable Technician; technologist. The service writers collaborate with the techs and communicate with the customers.
  4. countable, informal, uncountable Technique.
  5. countable, informal, uncountable, used in titles Technical college; technical school. Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.
  6. abbreviation, clipping, countable, informal, uncountable Clipping of technical rehearsal Despite his early preparation, the three-week tech period is Nigrini’s only opportunity to make his vision come to fruition.
  7. abbreviation, clipping, countable, uncountable Clipping of technical inspection

    Similar: technical inspection, scrutineering

  8. abbreviation, countable, informal, uncountable Short for technical foul

verb techs · teching · teched

  1. To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: technical school, hi-tech, technician, technological, technology, technicality, technologist, technical, sci, technique, hacker, polytechnic, cer, sar, high-tech, cet

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"tech." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tech. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tech. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tech

Chicago

"tech." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tech.

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@misc{tech_2026,
  title = {tech},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tech},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}