tekˈnēshēəm noun
( -s )
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek technētos artificial (from technasthai to devise by art, from technē art) + New Latin -ium — more at technical
: a crystalline radioactive metallic element that resembles rhenium and manganese chemically and that was obtained as the first synthetic element by bombarding molybdenum with deuterons or neutrons and later as one of the fission products of uranium — symbol Tc ; see element table