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[ noun ] a practical method or art applied to some particular task

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

Since the apparatus is new , it requires experimentation and changes in technique .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Complete with crowd effects , interruptions by jet_planes , and sundry other touches of realism , this disc displays London 's new technique to the best effect .

(Mr. America, 4:6...)

Mr._Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now famous Weider_Push-Pull_Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way , followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

The Command technique invites you to listen to the depth of the orchestration .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Melies , however , out of his professional instincts as a magician , discovered and made use of a number of illusionary techniques that remain part of the vocabulary of film .

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[ noun ] skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

Examples

"practice greatly improves proficiency"

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

It got the kind of scrambled , coarsened performance that can happen to best of orchestras when the man with the baton lacks technique and style .

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

That this abandonment takes_place on a stage , during an ' artistic ' performance , is enough to associate Jacoby with art , and to bring_down upon him the punishment for art ; that_is , he is suspect , guilty , punishable , as is anyone in Mann 's stories who produces illusion , and this is true even_though the constant elements of the artist nature , technique , magic , guilt and suffering , are divided in this story between Jacoby and La^utner .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

Much new equipment and many unique techniques have been developed for the quantitative exposure of experimental animals to aerosols of infectious agents contained in particles of specified dimensional characteristics .

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

He respected each of these approach techniques , and kept them in character :

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