Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices.
Wiktionary
- n. science fiction a person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic
- n. science fiction a robot who has an organic past
WordNet 3.0
- n. a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices
Etymologies
- cyb(ernetic) + org(anism). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Marvel†™ s ultimate cyborg is back in this 7-issue Marvel Knights limited series written by Charlie Huston (MOON KNIGHT) and breathtakingly illustrated by Lan Medina (FOOLKILLER).”
Marvel Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“Look out world, Sarah Connor is out to give her son a normal life and not even a metallic cyborg from the future is going to stop that from happening.”
“A cyborg is a symbiotic fusion of human and machine, originally envisioned as a human with machine modificationsand implants.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Cyborg Echoes: Collective Consciousness beyond the Post-Cyborg Era
“cyborg' is way different than the vengeance triliogy, but fun as hell - you'll love it.”
Universal and Focus Features Co-Producing Park Chan-Wook’s Thirst | /Film
“I remember your hair and how it made you look like an elfin cyborg.”
“As, what I suppose is most aptly called a cyborg, she is the ultimate other, totally isolated yet profoundly superior to the rest of the human race.”
“A cyborg is a human whose physiological and anatomical functions are augmented by mechanical or electronic means.”
Terminator vs Robocop vs Predator | I Rate Science Fiction Doctors
“This is the first major series since Dark Angel, however, to genuinely offer what may rightly be called a cyborg and one cannot help wondering if the choice of dark-haired actress Michelle Ryan for the new Jamie Sommers was influenced by Jessica Alba's role in that series.”
“After all, the human as a cyborg is the human extended, not diminished.”
“I don't recall anyone mentioning the ugly word cyborg, however.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cyborg’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
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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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discontinued analog cyborg subroutines
my first list
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Humanoids
Magical, mechanical, or medical. All man-made.
golem, android, humanoid, Frankenstein, inukshuk, bioroid, replicant, biorobot, automaton, gynoid, droid, cyborg and 12 more...
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automachine
robot, automaton, drone, unmanned aerial v..., u.a.v., u.c.a.v., skynet, replicator, cyborg, artificial intell..., a.i., h.a.l. and 16 more...
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Caseorganic's list
Words.
spiffilicioustori..., awesomesauce, sweetopian, sweetopia, neatochondria, yummaplant, antisiloization, mungachunga, neotopian, newtopian, supermodernity, distal and 1 more...
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Logophile, The Back Page (AKA: just c...
node, nexus, locus, toroidal, ivory, kestrel, lyre, muscat, caldera, tapestry, codex, paragon and 103 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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essigurken's Words
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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 1696 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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More Than Human
Beings that look human but are not, and powers that people can have.
succubus, incubus, gynoid, seraphim, clairvoyance, lycanthropy, psychometry, telekinesis, dhampir, jedi, pyrokinesis, esper and 14 more...
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always a pleasure
words that feel good, either in my mouth, or in my possession.
weir, cyborg, sumptuous, harangue, galoshes, carboniferous, perfunctory, hypnagogue, galumph, harbinger, frond, aloft and 8 more...
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Smallville
words relating to the TV show Smallville (the early years of Clark Kent!)
fly, friends, lies, super, shelby, daily planet, save, kansas, cornfields, barn, mansion, wall of weird and 74 more...
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