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tech

/tɛk/

tech noun: technology. Also the clipping of technical rehearsal.

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

  1. (informal) Technology.
    • I can't understand all this new tech.
    • Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process
    1. (informal) 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.
      • Tech stocks are down on Nasdaq.
  2. (informal) Technician; technologist.
    • The service writers collaborate with the techs and communicate with the customers.
    • A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23
  3. (informal) Technique.
  4. (informal) Technical college; technical school.
    • Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.
    • In high school, he attended the tech program, studying construction trades.

Verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

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

Also used as

tech is also the clipping of technical rehearsal.

tech is also the clipping of technical inspection.

tech is also the abbreviation of technical foul.

tech meaning in Gujarati and Nepali

tech in Gujarati

ટેક

tech in Nepali

टेक

Examples of tech in a sentence

  • Tech workers can earn big money.
  • In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:

All 40 example sentences with tech

Synonyms of tech

Forms of tech

Noun
pluraltechs
Verb
third-person singular presenttechs
present participleteching
past participleteched
pastteched

Past tense of tech: teched

Origin of tech

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Words formed from tech

Phrases with tech

17 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with tech

44 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tech

What does tech mean?
Tech means technology.
What is tech in Gujarati?
Tech in Gujarati is ટેક. See Tech meaning in Gujarati.
How do you use tech in a sentence?
Tech workers can earn big money.
What part of speech is tech?
Tech can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tech?
Tech is pronounced /tɛk/.
What is the plural of tech?
The plural of tech is techs.

Words near tech in the dictionary

  1. TECA
  2. tecadenoson
  3. Tecapán
  4. tecastemizole
  5. teceleukin
  6. tech
  7. tech abuse
  8. tech baron
  9. tech barons
  10. tech boom
  11. tech bro

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tech (page history and authors); tech (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tech (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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