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Definition of technology

noun (plural technologies)

[mass noun] the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry:advances in computer technology[count noun]:recycling technologies machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge:it will reduce the industrys ability to spend money on new technology the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.

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technology
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1. the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use oftechnical means and their interrelation with life, society, and theenvironment, drawing upon such subject s as industrial arts,engineering, applied science, and pure science. 2. the terminology of an art, science, etc.; technical nomenclature. 3. a scientific or industrial process, invention, method, or the like. 4. the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselveswith the material obj ects of their civilization.

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from Greek tekhnologia, systematic treatment of an art or craft : tekhne, skill . . . .

1a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives. b. The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective. 2. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group. . . . 3. Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.

-- American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed., 2000.

Technologies may seem like tools or implements, but they are more than mere extensions of human capacity -- as we now know, now that we live in an "Information Society." As Walter Ong puts it, Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness (Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought, 301). Another idea made salient in a society in which new media proliferate: the new technologies such as computer programs changes the structure of thought (see especially Edward Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint). That shows us that more of the tools we have inherited are in fact technologies too: metaphors, sentences.

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. pl. technologies 1. a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives. b. The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective. 2. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology. 3. Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.

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Definitions noun (plural) -gies 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.