technology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía). Synchronically analysable as techno- +‎ -logy.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛkˈnɒlədʒi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛkˈnɑlədʒi/

technology (countable and uncountable, plural technologies)

1. (uncountable) The organization of knowledge for practical purposes.
   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

2. All the different and usable technologies developed by a culture or people.
3. (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.

• Adjectives often applied to "technology": assistive, automotive, biological, chemical, domestic, educational, environmental, geospatial, industrial, instructional, medical, microbial, military, nuclear, visual, advanced, sophisticated, high, modern, outdated, obsolete, simple, complex, medieval, ancient, safe, secure, effective, efficient, mechanical, electrical, electronic, emerging, alternative, appropriate, clean, disruptive.

• technology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• technology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• technology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• technology at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "technology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 315.