technology

Noun

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.
   • Nearly everyone believes, falsely, that technology is applied science […] Technology is more closely related to art than to science—not only materially, because art must somehow involve the selection and manipulation of...
2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
   • We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
3. 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...
4. 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...
5. The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. A discourse or treatise on the arts.