technology
- (countable, uncountable) The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- (countable, uncountable) Machines or equipment thus designed.
- (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- (countable, figuratively) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- (literary, uncountable) The study of or a collection of techniques.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) A discourse or treatise on the arts.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
Related words
engineering science
branch of knowledge
technological sciences
erection procedure
skill craft
technologia
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