Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to bionics.
- adj. Having anatomical structures or physiological processes that are replaced or enhanced by electronic or mechanical components.
- adj. Having extraordinary strength, powers, or capabilities; superhuman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In biology, having the properties peculiar to living organisms; especially, being able to repeat the same morphological characters in successive generations.
Wiktionary
- adj. not comparable Related to bionics.
- adj. Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg.
- adj. superhuman
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components
- adj. of or relating to bionics
Etymologies
- From bio-electronic. (Wiktionary)
- bi(o)- + (electr)onic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But, these deals are generally reserved for star-driven films, which are made in bionic genres (action, thriller, sci-fi).”
“And the applications – from health monitoring to just plain bionic sight – could be endless.”
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“And what are the chances that J.Simp actually knows the meaning of the word bionic?”
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“Every time I hear the word bionic I keep thinking of Steve Austin running with the funny sound effects.”
“Until 5 months ago when she began seeing blinks of light using what some are calling a bionic eye.”
“Until five months ago when she began seeing glimpse of light, using what some are calling a bionic eye.”
“GUPTA: Cells on Campbell's retina that detect light had deteriorated until five months ago when she began seeing glimpses of light using what some are calling a bionic eye.”
“Still to come also, after years of rigorous testing, scientists hope to have the so-called bionic eye out on the market soon.”
“Former President Bush, now affectionately known as the bionic man, is 82-year-old.”
“She is called the bionic woman thanks to a high tech prosthetic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bionic’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Super Geeky Word List
as a techie, I run across nerd words.
brane, polyamide, phb, PHB, BOFH, redditor, grammar nazi, phaser, trending, SPOILER ALERT, surface mount, FMEA and 73 more...
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Tunie: Word Disassociation
(I'm fairly sure that I'm subverting the whole concept of the Tunie by listing this song. Subversion! Yes! HA HA HA HA! Mine is an evil laugh!!!)
Word Disassociation
antidisestablishm..., quickly, ruby, bionic, about, crouch, a cappella, imposter, flames, distraction, murderous, over and 181 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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-ic words
prosaic, mosaic, intrinsic, plastic, iambic, sic, panegyric, porphyric, demonic, mastic, frantic, myopic and 15 more...
Tweets
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alexz the word 'bionic' became popular with the tv show 'The Six Million Dollar Man' Jan 5, 2013