technology

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.

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

2. 2
   noun

   Machines or equipment thus designed.

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

3. 3
   noun

   Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).

   the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age

4. 4
   noun

   Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   the practical application of science to commerce or industry

6. 6
   noun

   the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems

7. 7
   noun

   The study of or a collection of techniques.

8. 8
   noun

   A discourse or treatise on the arts.

Etymology

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