Meaning of technology | Babel Free

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1. The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
   countable, uncountable
2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
   countable, uncountable
3. (the study of) science applied to practical, (especially industrial) purposes. a college of science and technology. tegnologie تِكنولوجيا، عِلْم التِّقْنِيَّه техническа наука tecnologia technologie die Technologie teknologi τεχνολογίαtecnología tehnika, tehnoloogia فن آوری teknologia technologieטכנולוגיה प्रौद्योगिकी tehnologija műszaki tudományok; technológia teknologi tæknifræði tecnologia 科学技術 기술 technologija, technika tehnoloģija teknologi technologieteknologitechnologia tecnologia tehno...
   especially
4. Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
   countable
5. tegnologies تِقْني، تِكنولوجي технологичен tecnológico technologický technologisch teknologisk τεχνολογικόςtecnológico tehniline, tehnoloogiline وابسته به فن آوری teknologinen technologique טֶכנוֹלוֹגִי तकनीकी सम्बन्धी tehnološki technológiai teknologis tæknifræðilegur tecnologico 科学技術の 과학 기술의, 기술학상의 technologinis tehnoloģisks; tehnoloģijas- teknologi technologischteknisk, teknologisktechnologiczny tecnológico tehno­lo­gic технологический technologický tehnološki tehnološki teknologisk ทางเทค...
6. Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
   countable, figuratively
7. tegnoloog خَبير بالتِّكنولوجيا технолог tecnólogo technolog der Technologe teknolog τεχνολόγος tecnólogo tehnoloog فن شناس teknologi technologue טֶכנוֹלוֹג शिल्प विज्ञानी tehnolog technológus ahli teknologi tæknifræðingur tecnologo 科学技術者 과학 기술자, 공학자 technologas tehnologs ahli teknologi technoloogteknolog, tekniker technolog tecnólogo tehnolog технолог technológ tehnolog tehnolog teknolog ผู้เชี่ยวชาญทางเทคโนโลยี teknolog 科學技術人員(專家) технолог صنعت و حرفت کي تاريخ کا ماہر، ماہر فنيات chuyên gia ...
8. The study of or a collection of techniques.
   literary, uncountable
9. tecnología, ciencia que trata de la aplicación de procedimientos técnicos.
10. A discourse or treatise on the arts.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
11. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
12. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology.
13. Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.
    Anthropology
14. the application of practical sciences to industry or commerce
15. the methods, theory, and practices governing such application: a highly developed technology.
16. (Sociology) the total knowledge and skills available to any human society for industry, art, science, etc

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Examples

“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 matter, but conceptually as well, because the technologist, like the artist, must work with many unanalyzable complexities. Another popular misunderstanding today is the belief that technology is inherently ugly and unpleasant, whereas a moment's reflection will show that technology underlies innumerable delightful experiences as well as the greatest art, whether expressed in object, word, sound or environment.”

“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."”

“We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.”

“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 computer hard disks, making it a technology that could transform not only the storage business but the entire computing industry. […] Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.”

“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.”

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