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technique

UK/tɛkˈniːk/US/tɛkˈniːk/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #2,655 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: techniques

A technique is a particular skilled way of doing something. Good technique, a new technique, poor technique.

It is the how rather than the what, and it is learned by repetition, which is why coaching insists on it before effort. Technique is countable — a technique — where technology is not. The Greek techne means art or craft.

Definitions of technique

  1. 1nountechniqueA particular skilled way of doing something.B1+

    “The coach helped her improve her swimming technique.”

technique is a method.

Where it comes from

French technique comes from Greek technikos, of art or craft, from techne, art or skill.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *tetḱ-

  2. Ancient Greek

    τεχνικός — of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful

  3. French

    technique — technicality; branch of knowledge

  4. English, today

    technique

Built from

  • technique · French — technical
  • τέχνη · Ancient Greek — art, handicraft

Borrowed from French technique (“technicality; branch of knowledge”), noun use of technique (“technical”), from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (“of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from τέχνη (“art, handicraft”). a doublet of technic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

technique in the wild

  • The Maharishi began teaching the technique in India in the mid-1950s.

    Transcendental Meditation

  • Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.

    Pointillism

  • The technique was first studied by Beach et al. from University of Bristol in 1998, who called the technique SDMA.

    Space-division multiple access

  • The Multi-User technique has been combined with MIMO and is known as Multi-User MIMO, wherein multiple data streams (layers) supported by MIMO are combined with multi-user support.

    Space-division multiple access

  • The technique was more sophisticated than earlier methods of lithic reduction, involving the striking of lithic flakes from a prepared lithic core.

    Levallois technique

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.