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Etymology

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Borrowed fromAncient Greekτεχνολογία(tekhnología,“systematic treatment (of grammar)”), fromτέχνη(tékhnē,“art”) +-λογία(-logía,“study”). Bysurface analysis,techno- +‎-logy.

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Noun

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technology (countable anduncountable,pluraltechnologies)

  1. The combinedapplication ofscience andart inpractical ways inindustry, as for example in designing newmachines.
    Humankind relies ontechnology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
    • 2013 June 21,Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 2, page30:
      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."
  2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
    We went to the trade show to see the latesttechnology on display.
  3. (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including inprescientific eras).
    the incipient metalworkingtechnology of the Bronze Age
    • 2007 September 11, John Markoff, “Redefining the Architecture of Memory”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:
      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 storagetechnologies.
  4. (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson,The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page317:
      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. (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
  6. (archaic) Adiscourse ortreatise on the arts.

Usage notes

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  • In some milieus and contexts, the word "technology" is understood to be limited to digital communications and computing technology, e.g. "technology companies were overvalued during thedotcom bubble."

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Collocations
  • Adjectives often applied to "technology": assistive, automotive, biological, chemical, domestic, educational, environmental, geospatial, industrial, instructional, medical, microbial, military, nuclear, visual, advanced, sophisticated, high, modern, outdated, obsolete, simple, complex, medieval, ancient, safe, secure, effective, efficient, mechanical, electrical, electronic, emerging, alternative, appropriate, clean, disruptive.

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Translations

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the study of or a collection of techniques
a particular technological concept
body of tools
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