technology

Meaning

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

Synonyms

technique

engineering

technics

skill

art

🎨

applied sciences

craft

applied science

engineering science

science

learning

subject

technic

gadgetry

artistry

paleocontact

branch of knowledge

userbase

industrial arts

techie

knowledge

technological sciences

erection procedure

skill craft

mechanics

parsing

Translations

technologie

Technologie

tecnologia

tecnología

tecnologia

Technik

technologie

τεχνολογία

technique

tecnologia

تكنولوجيا

tecnica

teknoloji

técnica

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.

Sentences

It is particularly strong in the fields of engineering , technology and management science .

This technology generated power as a by-product .

His technology blog can be found at DanTynan dot com .

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

Technology has also been used to create interactive adverts .