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technological Definition

tech·no·logi·cal (tek′nə läji kəl)

adjective

  1. of or having to do with technology
  2. due to developments in technology; resulting from technical progress in the use of machinery and automation in industry, agriculture, etc. technological productivity, technological unemployment

technological Related Forms

tech′·no·logi·cally adverb

technological Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • innovation: Quantum mechanics also provides the basis for technological innovations ranging from lasers to silicon chips.
  • advance: Now with modern technological advances we can begin to see how.
  • advancement: Technological advancements tend to launch in the US first then Europe, starting with the UK.
  • breakthrough: The Band created a technological breakthrough by going on ' the web ' with its own website, an instant success.
  • know-how: Sara begins to suspect the company could be involved in some sinister ways of using its technological know-how.
  • revolution: These reforms will help in the next stage of the technological revolution which we are determined to lead.

Modifying Another Word

  • increasingly: In an increasingly technological world the mathematics needed by tomorrow's citizens will continue to change.
  • highly: However, the town continues to flourish with modern and highly technological industries sited on the outskirts of the town.
  • only: The extraction and use of bog and red spring ores reflects not only technological but also cultural practices.
  • not: ID theft is an economic problem, phishing is a people problem -- these are not technological problems.
  • much: The best protection, ironically, is not so much technological as methodical.
  • just: They also know that Capability Management includes all types of organizational capabilities not just technological ones.

Preposition: in

nature: In his Preface to Plato, Eric Havelock finds that Plato's assault on poetry was fundamentally technological in nature.