cyborg

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsaɪ.bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/(UK)
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/ˈsaɪ.bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/(UK) · /ˈsaɪ.boɹɡ/

Definition of cyborg

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A being which is part machine and part organic.
    “I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.”
    “Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising.”
    “The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions.”
    “On the track of John and Kate is the T-X (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.”
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noun

  1. A being which is part machine and part organic.
    “I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.”
    “Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising.”
    “The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions.”
    “On the track of John and Kate is the T-X (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.”
  2. A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.

verb

  1. To convert (something) into a cyborg.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Blend of cybernetic + organism. Coined by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes in 1960.

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