technology

The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.

Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts

Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.

Machines or equipment thus designed.

We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.

Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).

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.

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.

The study of or a collection of techniques.