technology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: technologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts
Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
Nearly everyone believes, falsely, that technology is applied science […] Technology is more closely related to art than to science—not only materially, because art must somehow involve the selection and manipulation of matter, but conceptually as well, because the technologist, like the artist, must work with many unanalyzable complexities. Another popular misunderstanding today is the belief that technology is inherently ugly and unpleasant, whereas a moment's reflection will show that technology underlies innumerable delightful experiences as well as the greatest art, whether expressed in object, word, sound or environment.
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."
gloss: Machines or equipment thus designed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
gloss: Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
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.
gloss: Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: The study of or a collection of techniques.
pos: noun
tags: literary
uncountable
gloss: A discourse or treatise on the arts.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: technical
technician
technique
techno-
technological
engineering
science
artifact
tool
device
machine
flintstone
fire
irrigation
sailing
iron
gunpowder
windmill
compass
clock
printing
steam engine
railways
steamboat
photography
reaper
telegraph
telephone
automobile
radio
airplane
rocketry
television
computer
nuclear power
transistor
spaceflight
personal computer
Internet
artificial intelligence
Derived words: aerotechnology
agrotechnology
anti-technology
antitechnology
appropriate technology
assisted reproductive technology
assistive technology
astrotechnology
biotechnology
bulk technology
chief technology officer
city technology college
cryotechnology
cybertechnology
cytotechnology
Czechnology
ecotechnology
electrotechnology
femtotechnology
geotechnology
gerontechnology
grief technology
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
palaeotechnology
paleotechnology
phytotechnology
picotechnology
proof of technology
proptech
psychotechnology
pyrotechnology
radiotechnology
space technology
subtechnology
surface mounted technology
surface mount technology
surface-mount technology
tech
techknowledgeable
technetronic
Technicolor
techno
techno geek
technologist
technologize
technology education
technologyless
technology stack
technology transfer
technology tree
technology-wise
technopreneurial
technorati
techonomic
techquity
teletechnology
thanatechnology
through-hole technology
thru-hole technology
tongue technology
transition technology
Treknology
tricknology
tweeb
university of technology
xenotechnology
zootechnology
zymotechnology
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: тэхнало́гія
roman: texnalóhija
lang: Belarusian
word: тэхналёгія
roman: texnaljóhija
lang: Bulgarian
word: техноло́гия
roman: tehnológija
lang: Cebuano
word: teknolohiya
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 科技
roman: kējì
lang: Finnish
word: tekniikka
lang: Finnish
word: menetelmä
lang: Greek
word: τεχνολογία
roman: technología
lang: Irish
word: teicneolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: tecnologia
lang: Japanese
word: 技術
roman: gijutsu
lang: Korean
word: 과학기술
roman: gwahakgisul
lang: Polish
word: technologia
lang: Portuguese
word: tecnologia
lang: Romanian
word: tehnologie
lang: Russian
word: техноло́гия
roman: texnológija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: teicneolas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: техноло̀гија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tehnològija
lang: Slovene
word: tehnologija
lang: Spanish
word: tecnología
lang: Swahili
word: teknolojia
lang: Swahili
word: tekinolojia
lang: Swedish
word: teknologi
lang: Tamil
word: தொழினுட்பம்
roman: toḻiṉuṭpam
lang: Tamil
word: தொழில்நுட்பம்
roman: toḻilnuṭpam
lang: Yiddish
word: טעכניק
roman: tekhnik
lang: Czech
word: technika
lang: Finnish
word: tekniikka
lang: Finnish
word: tekniikat
lang: Finnish
word: teknologia
lang: Greek
word: τεχνολογία
roman: technología
lang: Indonesian
word: teknologi
lang: Irish
word: teicneolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: tecnologia
lang: Portuguese
word: tecnologia
lang: Romanian
word: tehnologie
lang: Russian
word: те́хника
roman: téxnika
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: teicneolas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: техноло̀гија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tehnològija
lang: Spanish
word: tecnología
lang: Swahili
word: teknolojia
lang: Swahili
word: tekinolojia
lang: Swedish
word: teknologi
lang: Tajik
word: технолоҷӣ
roman: texnoloji
lang: Yiddish
word: טעכנאָלאָגיע
roman: tekhnologye