technology

1. (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).Examples: "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."countable

2. (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.Examples: "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."countablefiguratively

3. (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.literaryuncountable

4. (archaic) A discourse or treatise on the arts.archaiccountableuncountable