Other forms: technologies
Technology is all the machines and tools that science gives us. New technology, technology company, the technology exists.
The word has drifted: it once meant the systematic study of the practical arts, and now it means the products of that study, and in casual use it means computers specifically. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic is Clarke's third law. Note that the Greek is techne, art or craft, plus the ending for a study.
1nountechnologyThe machines and tools that science gives us.
“Modern technology lets us talk to friends on the other side of the world for free.”
technology is a body of tools and methods.
Greek technologia is techne, art or craft, plus -logia, study. Technique, architect and text come from the same craft.
Ancient Greek
τεχνολογία — systematic treatment (of grammar)
English, today
technology
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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (“systematic treatment (of grammar)”). Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (“systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (“art”) + -λογία (“study”). by surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA