Technology
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines. countable, uncountable
"Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts"
- 2 the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment wordnet
- 3 Machines or equipment thus designed. countable, uncountable
"We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display."
- 4 machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences wordnet
- 5 Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras). countable
"the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age"
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- 6 the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems wordnet
- 7 Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism. countable, figuratively
"Comb jellies lack the most impressive 'technology' of jellyfish - the nematocyst stinging apparatus which is one of the most deadly weapons and fastest cellular processes in nature."
- 8 The study of or a collection of techniques. literary, uncountable
- 9 A discourse or treatise on the arts. archaic, countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
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