technology.
The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
Meaning & usage
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.
Machines or equipment thus designed.
We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
The study of or a collection of techniques.
A discourse or treatise on the arts.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der. Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λέγω (légō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -λόγος (-lógos) Ancient Greek τεχνολόγος (tekhnológos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología)lbor. English technology 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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