a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.] Pertaining or relating to technology.
1. Belonging to technical phraseology or methods: esp. of terms, words, senses; = TECHNICAL 3 b. Now rare.
1627. in Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., a iij. Each Science termes of Art hath wherewithall To expresse themselues, calld Technologicall.
1704. Norris, Ideal World, II. Pref. 20. The word λογος … being a technological term well known among the Jews (probably from the writings of Philo).
1854. J. Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Chem., 432. This material, considered in a technological sense, may be described as an alkaline silicate.
2. Relating to or dealing with the study of the arts, esp. the industrial arts.
1800. Monthly Mag., June, 468/2. A new work … consecrated entirely to the arts and manufactures, in the way of annals or technological memoirs.
1864. Dasent, Jest & Earnest (1873), II. 34. The dreary columns of a technological dictionary.
1868. Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 59. The exposition of the industrial and the technological value of the mineral wealth of the country.
