technology

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing 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/ (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. Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts Machines or equipment thus designed. (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras). (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism. (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 ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: テクノロジー (tekunorojī) ==== Translations ==== === 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. Raymond Williams (1983), “Technology”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 315 “technology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “technology”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “technology, technique, art, method, machinery, machines, devices”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer. “technological, technical”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.