cyborg

noun

1. 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. 2

   A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.

verb

1. 1

   To convert (something) into a cyborg.

Forms

plural

cyborgs

past tense

cyborged

past participle

cyborged

present participle

cyborging

third person singular

cyborgs