technique

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.

   Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].

2. 2
   noun

   Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill.

   Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique.

3. 3
   noun

   A method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge.

   They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.

4. 4
   noun

   skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

5. 5
   noun

   a practical method or art applied to some particular task

Etymology

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