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Technological vs Electronic - What's the difference?

technological | electronic |

As adjectives the difference between technological and electronic

is that technological is of, relating to, involving or caused by technology, especially modern scientific technology while electronic is electronic.

technological

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, involving or caused by technology, especially modern scientific technology.
  • Derived terms

    * technological advancement * technological unemployment

    electronic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (physics, chemistry): Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
  • Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
  • Generated by an electronic device.
  • Of or pertaining to the Internet.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
  • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

    Derived terms

    (electronic)

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