cyborg — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A being which is part machine and part organic.

   Examples

   I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.

   More examples (5)

   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.

   ... Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg.

   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.

   Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

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

Verb

1. To convert (something) into a cyborg.

   Synonyms

   cyborgize

Noun

1. a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices

   Broader terms

   machine

   Examples

   a cyborg is a cybernetic organism