English Online Dictionary. What means technology? What does technology mean?
English
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/
- (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.
- 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."
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Descendants
- → Japanese: テクノロジー (tekunorojī)
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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.