technology
//tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi//
Forms
- Plural
- technologies
Definitions
1.The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
2.Machines or equipment thus designed.
- We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
3.Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
4.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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #602
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”).
By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.