cyborg
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈsaɪ.bɔː(ɹ)ɡ//
- États-Unis//ˈsaɪ.boɹɡ//
A being which is part machine and part organic.
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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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A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.
Étymologie
Blend of cybernetic + organism. Coined by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes in 1960.
verbe
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To convert (something) into a cyborg.
Formes
- pluriel
- cyborgs
- passé
- cyborged
- participe passé
- cyborged
- participe présent
- cyborging
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- cyborgs
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