Definition of "technology"

technology

/tɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural technologies
1. The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
  Quotations
  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."
  2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
3. (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
4. (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
  Quotations
  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.
  2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 317
5. (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.

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