Technoid
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person interested in or skilled with technology. slang
"Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core technoid.""
- 1 Pertaining to the functionality or operation of a technology; technical.
"DLL is VB's runtime library, which allows VB programs to interact with Windows and do other low-level, behind-the-screens, technoid stuff."
- 2 Exhibiting, requiring, or characteristic of an interest in and/or proficiency with technology.
"Some folks are put off by the technoid aura of the hard-core BBS network, but the fact is that laser printing — and desktop publishing in general — is rapidly evolving, cutting-edge territory."
- 3 Electronic or electronic-sounding; resembling techno music.
"She hinted at this strategy on 2001's Vespertine, where her vocals pulsed along with music seemingly keyed to her own internal rhythms instead of getting lost in technoid tangles."
- 4 Of or pertaining to an aesthetic style which uses industrial or technological forms, materials, and themes.
"We are looking into an area in which biomorphic and technoid objects seem to exist in a Utopian atmosphere."
Example
More examples"DLL is VB's runtime library, which allows VB programs to interact with Windows and do other low-level, behind-the-screens, technoid stuff."
Etymology
From techno- + -oid.
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