technologynoun/tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/

• 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

  Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).

  • the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
  • Although it can read data quickly, it is very slow at storing it. That has led the industry on a frantic hunt for alternative storage technologies that might unseat flash. Mr. Parkin’s new approach, referred to as “racetrack memory,” could outpace both solid-state flash memory chips as well as computer hard disks, making it a technology that could transform not only the storage business but the entire computing industry. […] Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.
• 4

  Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.

  • 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.
• 5

  literaryThe study of or a collection of techniques.

• 6

  archaicA discourse or treatise on the arts.