technology

名词 n.
/tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/    /tɛkˈnɑ.lə.dʒi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines. countable,uncountable
    — Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts
  2. Machines or equipment thus designed. countable,uncountable
    — 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). countable
    — the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
  4. Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism. countable,figuratively
    — 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. The study of or a collection of techniques. literary,uncountable
  6. A discourse or treatise on the arts. archaic,countable,uncountable

词形变化

technologies plural

词汇关系

词源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). By surface analysis, techno- + -logy.
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