Technology \Tech*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? an art + -logy; cf. Gr. ? systematic treatment: cf. F. technologie.]

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Note: Technology is not an independent science, having a set of doctrines of its own, but consists of applications of the principles established in the various physical sciences (chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, etc.) to manufacturing processes. --Internat. Cyc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)