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The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.countableuncountable
- Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts
- Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
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Machines or equipment thus designed.countableuncountable
- We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
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Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).countable
- the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
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Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.countablefiguratively
- 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.
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The study of or a collection of techniques.literaryuncountable
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A discourse or treatise on the arts.archaiccountableuncountable
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