different between technique vs profilometry
technique
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French technique (“technicality; branch of knowledge”), noun use of technique (“technical”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from ????? (tékhn?, “art, handicraft”), from ??????? (tíktein, “to bring forth, produce, engender”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /t?k?ni?k/
Noun
technique (countable and uncountable, plural techniques)
- (uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]
- 1924, HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey, p. 97:
- 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 [...].
- 1924, HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey, p. 97:
- (uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:
- Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique.
- 2011, "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:
- (countable) A method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 16 Mar 2011:
- They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.
- 2011, Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 16 Mar 2011:
Derived terms
- teqball
Related terms
- technic
- technical
- technician
- techniquing
Translations
Further reading
- technique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- technique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- technique at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from ????? (tékhn?, “art, handicraft”), from ??????? (tíktein, “to bring forth, produce”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k.nik/
Adjective
technique (plural techniques)
- technical
Noun
technique f (plural techniques)
- technique, technology
Further reading
- “technique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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profilometry
English
Alternative forms
- profilemetry
Etymology
profile +? -o- +? -metry
Noun
profilometry (countable and uncountable, plural profilometries)
- The use of a technique in the measurement and profiling of an object.
- The methodology of performing eddy current profiling of tubing.
- The profilometry of the tubing was conducted directly following the eddy current exam.
- The technique in which a diamond stylus, in contact with a sample, measures surface variations as a function of position.
- The use of a laser or white-light, computer-generated projections to perform surface measurements of three dimensional objects.
- Surface profilometry was used to measure the film thickness.
See also
- eddy current
profilometry From the web:
- what is profilometry
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