technology

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
   • Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
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
   • 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...2007 September 11, John Markoff, “Redefining the Architecture of Memory”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020
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.