# technology

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/ · frequency rank #858

## Definitions
1. The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
2. Machines or equipment thus designed.
3. Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
4. Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
5. The study of or a collection of techniques.
6. A discourse or treatise on the arts.

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

## Common misspellings (16)
`etchnology`, `tcehnology`, `tecchnology`, `techhnology`, `technloogy`, `technnology`, `technolgoy`, `technollogy`, `technologgy`, `technologyy`, `technoloyg`, `technoolgy`, `techonlogy`, `tecnhology`, `tehcnology`, `ttechnology`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/technology