technology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /tɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: technologies
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
text: 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."
ref: 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
glosses: The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
examples: text: We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
glosses: Machines or equipment thus designed.
examples: text: the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
text: Although it can read data quickly, it is very slow at storing it. That has led the industry on a frantic hunt for alternative storage technologies that might unseat flash.
Mr. Parkin’s new approach, referred to as “racetrack memory,” could outpace both solid-state flash memory chips as well as computer hard disks, making it a technology that could transform not only the storage business but the entire computing industry. […] Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.
ref: 2007 September 11, John Markoff, “Redefining the Architecture of Memory”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
glosses: Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 317:
glosses: Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
glosses: The study of or a collection of techniques.
glosses: A discourse or treatise on the arts.
Derived terms: word: aerotechnology
word: agrotechnology
word: antitechnology
word: anti-technology
word: appropriate technology
word: assisted reproductive technology
word: assistive technology
word: astrotechnology
word: biotechnology
word: bulk technology
word: chief technology officer
word: city technology college
word: cryotechnology
word: cybertechnology
word: cytotechnology
word: Czechnology
word: ecotechnology
word: electrotechnology
word: geotechnology
word: gerontechnology
word: grief technology
word: high technology
word: histotechnology
word: hydrotechnology
word: information and communications technology
word: information technology
word: information technology bubble
word: institute of technology
word: language technology
word: macrotechnology
word: microtechnology
word: multitechnology
word: mycotechnology
word: nanotechnology
word: neurotechnology
word: nontechnology
word: phytotechnology
word: picotechnology
word: proof of technology
word: proptech
word: psychotechnology
word: pyrotechnology
word: radiotechnology
word: space technology
word: subtechnology
word: surface mounted technology
word: surface-mount technology
word: surface mount technology
english: and its derived terms
translation: and its derived terms
word: tech
word: techknowledgeable
word: technetronic
word: Technicolor
word: techno
word: techno geek
word: technologist
word: technologize
word: technology education
word: technologyless
word: technology stack
word: technology transfer
word: technology tree
word: technology-wise
word: technorati
word: techonomic
word: teletechnology
word: through-hole technology
word: thru-hole technology
word: tongue technology
word: transition technology
word: Treknology
word: tricknology
word: tweeb
word: university of technology
word: xenotechnology
word: zootechnology
word: zymotechnology
Related terms: word: technical
word: technician
word: technique
word: techno-
word: technological
word: engineering
word: science
word: artifact
word: tool
word: device
word: machine
word: flintstone
word: fire
word: irrigation
word: sailing
word: iron
word: gunpowder
word: windmill
word: compass
word: clock
word: printing
word: steam engine
word: railways
word: steamboat
word: photography
word: reaper
word: telegraph
word: telephone
word: automobile
word: radio
word: airplane
word: rocketry
word: television
word: computer
word: nuclear power
word: transistor
word: spaceflight
word: personal computer
word: Internet
word: artificial intelligence