technology

Etymology
Borrowed from, from +. .

Noun

 * 1) The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
 * 2) Machines or equipment thus designed.
 * 3)  Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
 * 4)  Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
 * 5)  The study of or a collection of techniques.
 * 6)  A discourse or treatise on the arts.
 * 1)  Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
 * 2)  The study of or a collection of techniques.
 * 3)  A discourse or treatise on the arts.
 * 1)  The study of or a collection of techniques.
 * 2)  A discourse or treatise on the arts.

Usage notes

 * In some milieus and contexts, the word "technology" is understood to be limited to digital communications and computing technology, e.g. "technology companies were overvalued during the dotcom bubble."

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "technology": assistive, automotive, biological, chemical, domestic, educational, environmental, geospatial, industrial, instructional, medical, microbial, military, nuclear, visual, advanced, sophisticated, high, modern, outdated, obsolete, simple, complex, medieval, ancient, safe, secure, effective, efficient, mechanical, electrical, electronic, emerging, alternative, appropriate, clean, disruptive.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: tegnologie
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ቴክኖዎሎጂ, ቴክኖሎጂ
 * Arabic: تِكْنُولُوجْيَا, تِقَانَة, ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: تكنيك
 * Hijazi Arabic: تِكْنُلوجيا, تَقْنِيَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܸܩܢܘܿܠܘܿܓ݂ܝܼܵܐ, ܐܘܼܡܵܢܘܼܬܵܐ
 * Asturian: teunoloxía
 * Aymara: lurañ yänaka
 * Azerbaijani: texnologiya, texnika
 * Bashkir: технология, техника
 * Basque: teknologia
 * Belarusian: тэхнало́гія, тэхналёгія, тэ́хніка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: နည်းပညာ
 * Carpathian Rusyn: техноло́ґія
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: teknolohiya
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 技術
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: teknologi,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tehnoloogia, tehnika
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტექნოლოგია, ტექნიკა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole: teknoloji
 * Hawaiian: ʻenehana
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hiligaynon: teknolohiya
 * Hindi: टैकनोलजी, प्रौद्योगिकी, तकनीक
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tækni
 * Igbo: nka na uzu
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Inuktitut: ᓴᓇᕐᕈᑏᑦ ᐊᑑᑎᖏᑕᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᓂᖓ
 * Irish: teicneolaíocht
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: технология, техника
 * Khmer:, តិកនិក
 * Korean:, 테크놀러지
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ເຕັກໂນໂລຊີ, ເທກນິກ
 * Latin: technologia
 * Latvian: tehnoloģija, tehnika
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian:, техника
 * Malagasy: teknôlôjia
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ
 * Maltese: teknoloġija
 * Maori: hangarau
 * Marathi: तंत्रज्ञान
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Nahuatl: āmantēcayōtl
 * Nepali: प्रविधि
 * Norman: technologie
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: teknologi, teknikk
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:, تکنالوژي, ټکنالوجي, , تکنيک, ټکنيک
 * Pennsylvania German: Waerkzeichheit
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Cyrillic: технолоӂие
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: teicneolas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: техноло̀гија, тѐхника
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: tinnuluggìa, ticnuluggìa, ticchinuluggìa
 * Sinhalese: තාක්‍ෂණය
 * Slovak: technológia, technika
 * Slovene:, tehnika
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: teknolojia, tekinolojia
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: teknolohiya, aghimuan
 * Tajik:, техника
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: технология, техника
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: འཕྲུལ་ལས་རིག་གནས
 * Tigrinya: ተክኖሎጊ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: tehnologiýa
 * Ukrainian: техноло́гія, те́хніка
 * Urdu:, تکنیک
 * Uyghur: تېخنىكا, تېخنولوگىيە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (技術),
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: טעכנאָלאָגיע, טעכניק


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 * Belarusian: тэхнало́гія, тэхналёгія
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: teknolohiya
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: teicneolaíocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: teicneolas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: техноло̀гија
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: teknolojia, tekinolojia
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: טעכניק


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, tekniikat,
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: teicneolaíocht
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: teicneolas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: техноло̀гија
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: teknolojia, tekinolojia
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: технолоҷӣ
 * Yiddish: טעכנאָלאָגיע


 * Icelandic:
 * Maltese:
 * Sindhi:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Vietnamese: ,