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superbrain en · NOUN

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Etymology

From super- + brain.

Meanings

1. An exceptionally intelligent person; a genius.
   • More puzzles for superbrains [title] 1983, Steve Odell, More puzzles for superbrains:
   • It does not take a superbrain to enumerate specifically the duties expected of a new man […] 1945, Eugene Jackson Benge, Manpower in marketing:
2. An exceptionally powerful brain or artificial intelligence.
   • I'm wired to the world / That's how I know everything / I'm superbrain / That's how they made me 2000, “Utopia”, in Felt Mountain, performed by Goldfrapp:
   • This first superbrain died after four years, suffering understandably from mental derangement brought on by its brain weight […] 1965, Daniel Stephen Halacy, Cyborg: evolution of the superman:
   • There are good biological reasons why we have not become just superbrain, rational calculators, even were this biologically possible. 2003, Anthony J Sanford, Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird, The nature and limits of human understanding:

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