technology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /tɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun
technology (countable and uncountable, plural technologies)
- 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.
- 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
- 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."
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
- (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
- (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 317:
- 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.
- (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
- (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.
Usage notes
- 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 the dotcom bubble."
Derived terms
- aerotechnology
- agrotechnology
- antitechnology
- anti-technology
- appropriate technology
- assisted reproductive technology
- assistive technology
- astrotechnology
- biotechnology
- bulk technology
- chief technology officer
- city technology college
- cryotechnology
- cybertechnology
- cytotechnology
- Czechnology
- ecotechnology
- electrotechnology
- geotechnology
- gerontechnology
- high technology
- histotechnology
- hydrotechnology
- information and communications technology
- information technology
- information technology bubble
- institute of technology
- language technology
- macrotechnology
- microtechnology
- multitechnology
- mycotechnology
- nanotechnology
- neurotechnology
- nontechnology
- phytotechnology
- picotechnology
- proof of technology
- proptech
- psychotechnology
- pyrotechnology
- radiotechnology
- space technology
- subtechnology
- surface mounted technology
- surface-mount technology
- surface mount technology
- tech (and its derived terms)
- technetronic
- Technicolor
- techno
- techno geek
- technologist
- technologize
- technology education
- technologyless
- technology stack
- technology transfer
- technology tree
- technology-wise
- technorati
- techonomic
- teletechnology
- through-hole technology
- thru-hole technology
- transition technology
- Treknology
- tricknology
- tweeb
- university of technology
- xenotechnology
- zootechnology
- zymotechnology
Related terms
Collocations
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.
Descendants
- → Japanese: テクノロジー (tekunorojī)
Translations
the study of or a collection of techniques
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a particular technological concept
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body of tools
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
Further reading
technology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “technology”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- technology in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "technology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 315.
- “technology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “technology”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- technology, technique, art, method, machinery, machines, devices at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- technological, technical at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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