cybergenetic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cyber- +‎ genetic

Adjective[edit]

cybergenetic (not comparable)

  1. Created by computer in imitation of life
    • 1997, Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™, →ISBN, page 259:
      In the background is a matrix of her mixed cybergenetic kin, all resulting from different "racial" crosses effected by a computer program.
  2. Of or pertaining to the interface between the electronic and the biological
    • 2004 April 18, Richard Fausset, quoting Mike Carlson, “El Camino Is Academic Champ -- Again”, in Los Angeles Times[1], page B1:
      I'm surprised they don't have some kind of cybergenetic plug in the back of their heads.

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