technonomyn.
/tɛkˈnɒnəmi/, U.S. /tɛkˈnɑnəmi/ rare.
The study of the practical application of technology and technologies and the principles which can be deduced from this.
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1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 829 Observing and descriptive stage... Technography. Inductive and classifying stage... Technology. Deductive and predictive stage... Technonomy.
1928 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. 139 33/2 Technonomy has been referred to as the chief or ultimate aim of industrial research.
1977 B. O. Watkins & R. Meador Technol. & Human Values i. 10 Early relatives of technology, such as technography (description of the arts) and technonomy (practical application of the principles of the arts) were committed by definition and usages to the arts.
1989 Technol. & Culture 30 512 The makers of the ‘technological science’ in Germany and France—Johannes Beckmann..and Gerard-Joseph Christian..who conceived of the subject as ‘technonomy’ in a work published in 1819—were interested in studying technical production as a science, in drawing out its general internal laws or principles.]
Derivatives
technoˈnomic adj.
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1891 Cent. Dict. Technonomic, of or pertaining to technonomy.
1935 Science Feb. 129/2 Aside from the strategic technographic and technonomic position occupied by Pittsburgh,..the region possesses an abundance of natural resources.
2000 A. Lee et al. in J. Garrick & C. Rhodes Reason & Knowl. at Work ii. vii. 132 The Dream of Reason and Progress..in which, above all else, ‘technonomic’ rationality and the meta-logic of performativity prevail as the final marker and maker of social meaning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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