Definitions

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  • noun An exceptionally intelligent person; a genius.
  • noun An exceptionally powerful brain or artificial intelligence.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ brain

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Examples

  • When Wallace's superbrain walks into a room, it notices everything, measuring, inventorying and classifying the furniture, the brand names on the shelves, the microtextures of walls and clothes and carpets, the tone and timbre of people's voices -- everything.

    David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

  • When Wallace's superbrain walks into a room, it notices everything, measuring, inventorying and classifying the furniture, the brand names on the shelves, the microtextures of walls and clothes and carpets, the tone and timbre of people's voices -- everything.

    David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

  • When Wallace's superbrain walks into a room, it notices everything, measuring, inventorying and classifying the furniture, the brand names on the shelves, the microtextures of walls and clothes and carpets, the tone and timbre of people's voices--everything.

    David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "There isn't a genius superbrain who is pulling all the levers of government," says Camp.

    Audit Red Flags As IRS Pursues Rich Arden Dale 2009

  • But at the end of two weeks the NASA scientists concluded that everything was in their favor, so on 20 July men like Cornell's Carl Sagan and Hal Mazursky, the superbrain, bit their lips, and white-haired Jim Martin crossed his fingers and gave the signal to detach the small lander from the bigger orbiter which had brought it safely across so many millions of miles.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • Guy Ritchie turns the world's favorite superbrain into another action hero.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Guy Ritchie turns the world's favorite superbrain into another action hero.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • South African rugby superbrain Heyneke Meyer believes the new breakdown rule interpretations will favour Super 14 powerhouses the Crusaders and Brumbies.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By DUNCAN JOHNSTONE 2010

  • When Wallace's superbrain walks into a room, it notices everything, measuring, inventorying and classifying the furniture, the brand names on the shelves, the microtextures of walls and clothes and carpets, the tone and timbre of people's voices-everything.

    The New York Review of Books 2010

  • Guy Ritchie turns the world's favorite superbrain into another action hero.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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