cyborg

cyborg

See also: Cyborg

English

Etymology

Blend of cybernetic +‎ organism. Coined by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes in 1960.[1]

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.boɹɡ/, [ˈsaɪ.bo̞ɹɡ]

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Noun

cyborg (plural cyborgs)

1. (science fiction) A being which is part machine and part organic.
   • 1981, Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3 #122", May 15:

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

   • 1991, Timothy K. Smith, "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front page:

     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.

   • 2002, Thomas Jones, "Short Cuts", London Review of Books Vol. 24 No. 18, September 19:

     ... 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.

   • 2003, David Simpson, "Are we still tragic?", guardian.co.uk (exclusive from London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 7, April 3), April 1:

     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.

   • 2003, Anthony Lane, "The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru", The New Yorker, July 14:

     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.

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

Synonyms

• bion
• cybernetic organism
• cyberman

Related terms

• borg

Translations

person who is part machine

Arabic: سَايْبُورْغ‎ m (sāybūrḡ) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: кі́барг m (kíbarh) Bulgarian: ки́борг m (kíborg) Catalan: ciborg (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 賽博格／赛博格 (sàibógé), 生化人 (shēnghuàrén) Czech: kyborg (cs) m Dutch: cyborg (nl) Esperanto: kiborgo, ciborgo Finnish: kyborgi (fi) French: cyborg (fr) m Georgian: კიბორგი (ka) (ḳiborgi) German: Kyborg m, Cyborg (de) m Greek: σάιμποργκ (el) m (sáimporgk), άνθρωπος ρομπότ m (ánthropos rompót) Hebrew: קיבורג‎ (he) (kiborg) Hindi: सायबॉर्ग m (sāybŏrg) Hungarian: kiborg (hu) Italian: cyborg (it) Japanese: サイボーグ (saibōgu) Korean: 사이보그 (saibogeu) Lao: ຊາຍບອກ (sāi bǭk) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: kiborgas m Macedonian: ки́борг m (kíborg) Marathi: साय्बॉर्ग m (sāybŏrga) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Persian: سایبورگ‎ (sâyborg) Polish: cyborg (pl) m Portuguese: ciborgue (pt) m Romanian: cyborg (ro) Russian: ки́борг (ru) m (kíborg) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: киборг m Roman: kiborg m Slovak: kyborg m Slovene: kiborg m Spanish: ciborg m Thai: ไซบอร์ก (th) (sai-bɔ̀ɔk) Ukrainian: кі́борг (uk) m (kíborh) Urdu: سایبارگ‎ m (sāybārg) Vietnamese: người máy (vi)

Verb

cyborg (third-person singular simple present cyborgs, present participle cyborging, simple past and past participle cyborged)

1. (science fiction) To convert (something) into a cyborg.

   Synonym: cyborgize

References

1. Manfred E. Clynes; Nathan S. Kline (September 1960), “Cyborgs and space”, in Astronautics‎:

   For the exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated homeostatic system unconsciously, we propose the term “Cyborg.” The Cyborg deliberately incorporates exogenous components extending the self-regulatory control function of the organism in order to adapt it to new environments. […] The purpose of the Cyborg, as well as his own homeostatic systems, is to provide an organizational system in which such robot-like problems are taken care of automatically and unconsciously, leaving man free to explore, to create, to think, and to feel.

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “cyborg, v.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Further reading

• cyborg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cyborg.

Noun

cyborg m

1. cyborg

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cyborg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɨ.bɔrk/

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• Rhymes: -ɨbɔrk
• Syllabification: cy‧borg

Noun

cyborg m anim

1. cyborg (person who is part machine)

Declension

Declension of cyborg

	singular	plural
nominative	cyborg	cyborgi
genitive	cyborga	cyborgów
dative	cyborgowi	cyborgom
accusative	cyborga	cyborgi
instrumental	cyborgiem	cyborgami
locative	cyborgu	cyborgach
vocative	cyborgu	cyborgi

Derived terms

noun

• cyborgizacja

 

Further reading

• cyborg in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cyborg in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cyborg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.borɡ/

Noun

cyborg m (plural cyborgi)

1. cyborg

Declension

Declension of cyborg

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cyborg	cyborgul	(niște) cyborgi	cyborgii
genitive/dative	(unui) cyborg	cyborgului	(unor) cyborgi	cyborgilor
vocative	cyborgule		cyborgilor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈboɾɡ/ [θiˈβ̞oɾɣ̞]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siˈboɾɡ/ [siˈβ̞oɾɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -oɾɡ
• Syllabification: cy‧borg

Noun

cyborg m (plural cyborgs)

1. cyborg