technology

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 76.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.

   Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.

2. noun Machines or equipment thus designed.

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

3. noun Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).

   the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age

4. noun Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
5. noun The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. noun A discourse or treatise on the arts.

Similar words

applied science engineering engineering science technicality technical technological tech hi-tech science scientific

Often followed by

and is in to of for has transfer that

Word family

technological technologically technologies technologist technologists