technological
Americanadjective
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of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
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Economics. caused by technical advances in production methods.
Other Word Forms
- antitechnological adjective
- nontechnologic adjective
- nontechnological adjective
- nontechnologically adverb
- pretechnological adjective
- pretechnologically adverb
- technologically adverb
Etymology
Origin of technological
First recorded in 1620–30; technolog(y) + -ical
Explanation
The adjective technological describes something that’s based in science and applied to everyday life to solve problems. If you network your computers at home to make it easier to share files, you’re using your technological skills. The root of technological comes from the Greek word tekhnologia, meaning “systematic treatment,” and a systematic, scientific approach is still behind modern technological developments. What makes something technological — rather than scientific — is the practical application of the science. The technological advances of the last decades have touched nearly every aspect of life, including how you stay in touch with friends, how you gather and analyze information, how your food is produced, and even how you listen to your music.
Vocabulary lists containing technological
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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Example Sentences
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"But Europe is definitely not poor and this is a technological opportunity for Europe to reshuffle a bit the cards in terms of autonomous strategy and our ability to have economic leading players," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Compared to the cheesy comet-tails that NBC began editing into slo-mo pitch replays in the ‘80s, ESPN’s ghostly “K-Zone” felt deadly serious: a technological marvel for an objective, computer-assisted age.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
Today, many forces, corporate and technological, make it harder to look away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The findings point to human interaction, rather than isolation, as a key force behind early technological and cultural progress, with the Levant acting as a major crossroads in human history.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
It is easy to say that our world has been made by science or by technology, but scientific and technological progress depend on a pre-existing assumption, the assumption that there are discoveries to be made.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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