technology

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). Synchronically analysable as techno- + -logy.

noun

1. (uncountable) The study of or a collection of techniques.
   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." 2013-06-21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
2. (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that was developed or invented.
   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. 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 317
3. (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.