technology

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “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. (countable, uncountable)Machines or equipment thus designed.

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

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

   “the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age”

4. (countable, figuratively)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.”

5. (literary, uncountable)The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A discourse or treatise on the arts.