bionic


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bionic/bʌɪˈɒnɪk/
adjective
  • 1 relating to or denoting the use of electromechanical body parts instead of or as well as living ones.
  • 2 informal having ordinary human powers increased by or as if by the aid of such devices.
– derivatives
bionically adverb,
bionics plural noun.
– origin 1960s: from bio-, on the pattern of electronic.
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