technoid

Pertaining to the functionality or operation of a technology; technical.

Adjective

  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. - 1996, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating An HMTL Web Page,...
  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. - 1987 January, Charles...
  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. - 2004, Keith Harris, Medulla review,...
  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. - 1978, Uwe M. Schneede, Surrealism, Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, page 136:

Origin

From techno- + -oid.

Forms

more technoid most technoid

Noun

  1. A person interested in or skilled with technology.
    • Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core technoid." - 1984 April 16, Michael Moritz, “A Hard-Core Technoid”, in Time:

Forms

technoids

Synonyms

geeky nerdy geek nerd technophile