An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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The use of scientific knowledge for the creation and development of devices, machines, and techniques to achieve a commercial, industrial, or scientific objective.

From Gk. tekhnologia "systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique," originally referring to grammar, from tekhno-, from tekhne, → technique, + → -logy.

1) The system of terms belonging to a particular science, art, specialized subject, or social group. Terminology is the way of naming concepts, which generally precede the corresponding terms. See also → lexicology.
2) The theory or science dealing with the relations between → terms and → concepts.

A hybrid word coined first in Fr., before 1764, by Yves Marie André (1675-1764), a Jesuit mathematician and philosopher, from termin, from L. terminus, → term, + epenthetic vowel -o- + Gk. -logia, → -logy. Recoined or borrowed in Ger. Terminologie in 1786, by C.G. Schütz of Jena; first appeared in E. in 1801.

From tarm, → term, + -šenâsi, → -logy.

The field of study and analysis that treats of → God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity (Dictionary.com).

→ theism; → -logy.

The study of the properties of geometric figures that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching. A circle is topologically equivalent to an ellipse (into which it can be deformed by stretching) and a sphere is equivalent to an ellipsoid.

From topo- combining form of Gk. topos "place" + → -logy.

Topošenâsi, from topo-, loan from Gk., as above, + šenâsi→ -logy.

A term that describes the collective efforts of those who study → unidentified flying object (UFO) reports.

Ufo, from → unidentified flying object; → -logy.