technology
The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
Noun 4 meanings
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”
Machines or equipment thus designed.
“We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.”
Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
“the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age”
Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
TECHNOLOGY at a glance
TECHNOLOGY has 10 letters and scores 19 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + C 3 + H 4 + N 1 + O 1 + L 1 + O 1 + G 2 + Y 4) and 21 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #821 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with technology
All rhymes- PSYCHOLOGY24
- BIOLOGY13
- APOLOGY13
- IDEOLOGY13
- THEOLOGY15
- TRILOGY11
- METHODOLOGY21
- SOCIOLOGY15
- GEOLOGY12
- ECOLOGY13
- ANALOGY11
- TERMINOLOGY17
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