cyborg
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/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
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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
-
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.”
- A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.
verb
- 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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