technology
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- The study of or a collection of techniques.
- A discourse or treatise on the arts.
Pronunciation
/tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/
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/tɛkˈnɑ.lə.dʒi/
/ˈʈɛk(h).nɵˌlɔ.dʒi/
/ˈʈɛk(h)ˌnɔ.lə.dʒi/
Word forms
technology
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.
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
antitechnology
anti-technology
appropriate technology
assisted reproductive technology
assistive technology
astrotechnology
biotechnology
bulk technology
chief technology officer
city technology college
cryotechnology
cybertechnology
cytotechnology
Czechnology
ecotechnology
electrotechnology
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
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
Translations
Belarusian: тэхнало́гія
Belarusian: тэхналёгія
Bulgarian: техноло́гия
Cebuano: teknolohiya
Chinese Mandarin: 科技
Finnish: tekniikka
Finnish: menetelmä
Finnish: tekniikat
Finnish: teknologia
Greek: τεχνολογία
Irish: teicneolaíocht
Italian: tecnologia
Japanese: 技術
Korean: 과학기술
Polish: technologia
Portuguese: tecnologia
Romanian: tehnologie
Russian: техноло́гия
Russian: те́хника
Scottish Gaelic: teicneolas
Serbo-Croatian: техноло̀гија
Serbo-Croatian: tehnològija
Slovene: tehnologija
Spanish: tecnología
Swahili: teknolojia
Swahili: tekinolojia
Swedish: teknologi
Tamil: தொழினுட்பம்
Tamil: தொழில்நுட்பம்
Yiddish: טעכניק
Yiddish: טעכנאָלאָגיע
Czech: technika
Indonesian: teknologi
Tajik: технолоҷӣ
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