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Contemporary Examples

And it finishes second, behind New York, for technology Innovation.

But Shawn and Craig, 47, are accused of being interested in technology as well.

Her reveals the sometimes blind, unsettling way love and technology merge.

Yet equal access to education and technology still remains a challenge.

The second feature is how to translate the technology efficiently: how to harness the power of this device for practical use.

British Dictionary definitions for technology Expand

the application of practical sciences to industry or commerce

the methods, theory, and practices governing such application: a highly developed technology

the total knowledge and skills available to any human society for industry, art, science, etc

Derived Forms

technological (tknldkl) adjectivetechnologically, adverbtechnologist, noun

Word Origin

C17: from Greek tekhnologia systematic treatment, from tekhn art, skill

Word Origin and History for technology Expand

1610s, "discourse or treatise on an art or the arts," from Greek tekhnologia "systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique," originally referring to grammar, from tekhno- (see techno-) + -logy. The meaning "science of the mechanical and industrial arts" is first recorded 1859. High technology attested from 1964; short form high-tech is from 1972.

technology in Science Expand

The use of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems, especially in industry and commerce.

The specific methods, materials, and devices used to solve practical problems.

technology in Technology Expand

jargon Marketroid jargon for "software", "hardware", "protocol" or something else too technical to name. The most flagrant abuse of this word has to be "Windows NT" (New Technology) - Microsoft's attempt to make the incorporation of some ancient concepts into their OS sound like real progress. The irony, and even the meaning, of this seems to be utterly lost on Microsoft whose Windows 2000 start-up screen proclaims "Based on NT Technology", (meaning yet another version of NT, including some Windows 95 features at last). See also: solution. (2001-06-28)

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