technology
Pronunciation: /tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/
The English word “technology” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- The study of or a collection of techniques.
- 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.
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- technologism
- technologist
- technologization
- technologize
- technology education
- technology stack
- technology transfer
- technology tree
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