Definition of "technology" in English

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.

2. 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, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.

5. (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.

6. (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.