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technoscience

/ˈtɛknoʊˌsaɪ.əns/

technoscience noun: the long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Noun

technoscience (uncountable)

  1. The long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  2. The study of the technological and social context of science.
    • Briefly put, strategies of globalization undertaken by the state, capital and technoscience all attempt to negotiate the production of locality in a non place- based way that induces increasingly delocalizing effects.2002, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell, Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, Rodopi, page 20
    • Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces.2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home

Origin of technoscience

From techno- + science.

Questions about technoscience

What does technoscience mean?
Technoscience means the long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
What part of speech is technoscience?
Technoscience is a noun.
How do you pronounce technoscience?
Technoscience is pronounced /ˈtɛknoʊˌsaɪ.əns/ (US).

Words near technoscience in the dictionary

  1. technoscapes
  2. technosceptic
  3. technosceptical
  4. technoscepticism
  5. technosceptics
  6. technoscience
  7. technoscientific
  8. technoscientifically
  9. technoself
  10. technoselves
  11. technosex

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