technology

noun6

1. •
   the use of science to design and build machines and other useful things

   • 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).
4. •
   (figurative) 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. — 2012
5. •
   (literary) The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. •
   (no longer used) A discourse or treatise on the arts.