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technology (n.)

1610s, "a discourse or treatise on an art or the arts," from Greek tekhnologia "systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique," originally referring to grammar, from tekhno-, combining form of tekhnē "art, skill, craft in work; method, system, an art, a system or method of making or doing," from PIE *teks-na- "craft" (of weaving or fabricating), from suffixed form of root *teks- "to weave," also "to fabricate." For ending, see -logy. The meaning "study of mechanical and industrial arts" (Century Dictionary, 1895, gives as example "spinning, metal-working, or brewing") is recorded by 1859. High technology attested from 1964; short form high-tech is from 1972.

technologist (n.)

"one versed in technology," 1803, from technology + -ist.

technological (adj.)

1620s, in reference to terminology, from technology + -ical. Meaning "of or relating to technology" from 1800. Related: Technologically.

biotechnology (n.)

also bio-technology, 1947, "use of machinery in relation to human needs;" from 1964 in sense of "use of biological processes in industrial production," from bio- + technology.

nanotechnology (n.)

loosely, "study and application of extremely small things" in many scientific fields, by 1974, from nano- + technology …

*teks- 

; technology; tectonic; tete; text; textile …

techie (n.)

one well-versed in the latest technology, by 1984.

MIT 

originally M.I.T., abbreviation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, attested from 1892. The school was founded 1861. …

microelectronics (n.)

"branch of technology concerned with microcircuits," by 1958, from micro- + electronics. …

Jacquard (adj.)

in reference to a type of loom, 1841, from Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) of Lyons, inventor of new weaving technology c. 1800.
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