cyborg en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsaɪ.boɹɡ/ (General-American)
- /ˈsaɪ.bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/ (UK)
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Etymology
Blend of cybernetic + organism. Coined by Austrian-born scientist and musician Manfred Clynes in 1960.
Meanings
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A being which is part machine and part organic.
Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.
2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1: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.
1991, Timothy K. Smith, "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front pageI would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.
1981, Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3 #122", May 15... Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg.
2002 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones: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.
2003, David Simpson, "Are we still tragic?", guardian.co.uk (exclusive from London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 7, April 3), April 1On 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.
2003 July 14, Anthony Lane, “The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru”, in The New Yorker:
- A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cyborgs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cyborglike · eyeborg · cyborgian · fyborg
Relateds
Synonyms
bion · cybernetic organism · cyberman
Translations (43)
ar سَايْبُورْغ (person who is part machine) · lt kiborgas (person who is part machine) · pt ciborgue (person who is part machine) · vi người máy (person who is part machine) · de Kyborg (person who is part machine) · be кі́барг (person who is part machine) · sh киборг (person who is part machine) · lo ຊາຍບອກ (person who is part machine) · fr cyborg (person who is part machine) · pl cyborg (person who is part machine) · ru ки́борг (person who is part machine) · sl kiborg (person who is part machine) · it cyborg (person who is part machine) · el άνθρωπος ρομπότ (person who is part machine) · fa سایبورگ (person who is part machine) · bg ки́борг (person who is part machine) · cy seiborg (person who is part machine) · cmn 賽博格 /赛博格 (person who is part machine) · cs kyborg (person who is part machine) · he קיבורג (person who is part machine) · sk kyborg (person who is part machine) · cmn 生化人 (person who is part machine) · ca ciborg (person who is part machine) · ja サイボーグ (person who is part machine) · fi kyborgi (person who is part machine) · ro cyborg (person who is part machine) · mk ки́борг (person who is part machine) · ur سایبارگ (person who is part machine) · da cyborg (person who is part machine) · mr साय्बॉर्ग (person who is part machine) · ka კიბორგი (person who is part machine) · eo kiborgo (person who is part machine) · uk кі́борг (person who is part machine) · hu kiborg (person who is part machine) · eo ciborgo (person who is part machine) · el σάιμποργκ (person who is part machine) · hi सायबॉर्ग (person who is part machine) · th ไซบอร์ก (person who is part machine) · es ciborg (person who is part machine) · sh kiborg (person who is part machine) · ko 사이보그 (person who is part machine) · de Cyborg (person who is part machine) · nl cyborg (person who is part machine)