Technology

//tɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi//

"Technology" in a Sentence (18 examples)

It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready.

The formation and movement of hurricanes are capricious, even with our present-day technology.

What is the advantage of this technology?

Modern technology gives us many new things.

Why didn't modern technology develop in China?

Improved medical technology has been one of the spin-offs of the space program.

We live in the age of technology.

Our company needs someone who feels at home when it comes to advanced technology.

Technology is in itself meaningless unless it serves mankind.

Technology has failed to ease the conflict between man and nature.

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Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts

Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.

Nearly everyone believes, falsely, that technology is applied science […] Technology is more closely related to art than to science—not only materially, because art must somehow involve the selection and manipulation of matter, but conceptually as well, because the technologist, like the artist, must work with many unanalyzable complexities. Another popular misunderstanding today is the belief that technology is inherently ugly and unpleasant, whereas a moment's reflection will show that technology underlies innumerable delightful experiences as well as the greatest art, whether expressed in object, word, sound or environment.

Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.

the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age

Although it can read data quickly, it is very slow at storing it. That has led the industry on a frantic hunt for alternative storage technologies that might unseat flash. Mr. Parkin’s new approach, referred to as “racetrack memory,” could outpace both solid-state flash memory chips as well as computer hard disks, making it a technology that could transform not only the storage business but the entire computing industry. […] Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.

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.

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