technology

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
• noun The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.
• noun Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group.
• noun Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun That branch of knowledge which deals with the various industrial arts; the science or systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, as spinning, metal-working, or brewing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable The study of or a collection of techniques.
• noun countable A device, material, or sequence of mathematical coded electronic instructions created by a person's mind that is built, assembled, or produced and which is not part of the natural world.
• noun All the different and usable technologies developed by a culture or people.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the practical application of science to commerce or industry
• noun the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems