technology

Meaning

1. The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
3. Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
4. Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
5. The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. A discourse or treatise on the arts.

Concepts

technology

technique

engineering

technics

skill

art

craft

applied science

engineering science

applied sciences

technological sciences

branch of knowledge

knowledge

learning

science

subject

erection procedure

parsing

skill craft

technic

artistry

mechanics

industrial arts

gadgetry

paleocontact

techie

userbase

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.

Sentences

Underground sprinklers function through means of basic electronic and hydraulic technology .

Technology has also been used to create interactive adverts .