electronica

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electronica (uncountable)

1. (music) Any of a wide range of electronic music genres.
   • 2012, Michael Campbell, Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On:

     By mid-decade, electronica began to chart, in the music of acts such as Bjork, Chemical Brothers, and Moby, and the resources of electronica were integrated into other non-pop styles, such as the industrial music of Trent Reznor […]

   • 2014, Timothy D. Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture:

     New Age music […] like all musics, has its margins, and these are blurred with ambient, techno, and other electronica.

2. Electronic items in general.
3. (Internet) The data trail of an individual on the public internet. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.lɛkˈtroː.ni.kaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: e‧lec‧tro‧ni‧ca

electronica f (uncountable)

1. superseded spelling of elektronica

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.ɫɛkˈtroː.nɪ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.lekˈt̪rɔː.ni.ka]

ēlectrōnica f (genitive ēlectrōnicae); first declension

1. (New Latin) electronics

First-declension noun.

• ēlectrōnicus