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You will then receive an email invitation to join the course. Welcome to Top Hat! Join Session By clicking Join Session, you confirm that you have read and agree to our User Agreement Choose from thousands of textbooks and course materials in the Top Hat Catalog, and collaborate in a unique community of educators A technique is a particular method of doing an activity, usually a method that involves practical skills. ...the techniques of modern agriculture. A distinctive feature of qualitative methods is the flexibility of research designs, particularly where ethnographic methods using a range of techniques are involved.

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1. The basic method for making or doing something, such as an artistic work or scientific procedure: learned the techniques involved in painting murals. 2. Skill or command in a particular activity: a pianist with superb technique. See Synonyms at skill. technique (countable and uncountable, plural techniques) (uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.

[from 19th c.] These techniques rely on the physical uniqueness of each individual, but they are not foolproof. Physical characteristics can be copied, or even compromised by injury.