technologies

Noun

technology (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.
   • Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts
2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
   • We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
3. (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
   • the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
4. (countable, figuratively) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
   • 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. (literary, uncountable) The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.