Webster's English Dictionary

technology

tech.nol.o.gy \-je-\ n [Gk technologia systematic treatment of an art, fr. 
   techno- + -l]ogia -logy 1: technical language  2a: applied science  2b: a 
   technical method of achieving a practical purpose  3: the totality of the 
   means employed to provide objects necessary for huma n sustenance and 
   comfort