technic

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
technic /ˈtɛknɪk/

▶noun chiefly N. Amer.

• 1 also /tɛkˈniːk/ technique.

• 2 (technics) [treated as sing. or pl.] technical terms, details, and methods; technology.

– derivatives
technicist noun.

– origin C17 (as adj. in the sense ‘to do with art’): from L. technicus, from Gk tekhnikos, from tekhnē ‘art’.