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> cybernetics
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> cybernetics sibrne;tiks. f. Gr. kubernhthj steersman, f.
> kubernan to steer (see govern v.) + -ics. The theory or study of
> communication and control in living organisms or machines. Hence (as
> back-formation)
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> cybernetic
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> cyber'netic a., pertaining or relating to cybernetics. So
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> cybernetician
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> cyberne'tician,
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> cyberneticist
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> cyber'neticist, one who is skilled in cybernetics. Used in Fr. form
> cybernétique (= the art of governing) by A.-M. Ampère Essai sur la
> Philos. des Sciences, 1834.
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>    * 1948 N. Wiener Cybernetics 19 We have decided to call the
>      entire field of control and communication theory, whether in
>      the machine or in the animal, by the name Cybernetics.
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>    * 1951 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. Oct. 624/2 All these machines
>      represent developments in that part of what has been called the
>      cybernetic revolution which is gradually taking over those
>      operations in the fields of numbers, quantities, and data that
>      are strictly clerical or mechanical.
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>    * 1952 Science News XXIII. 77 The cyberneticists approach the
>      problem of neural activity from a purely functional angle, and
>      seek to model the activity of the brain as a whole on the
>      electronic devices of modern communications systems and
>      servo-mechanisms.
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>    * 1958 Listener 18 Sept. 413 The claim of cybernetics is that we
>      can treat organisms as if they were machines, in the sense that
>      the same methods of synthesis and analysis can be applied to
>      both.
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>    * 1959 Times 11 May 6/6 Cybernetics is the study of man in
>      relation to his particular job or machine with special
>      reference to mental processes and control mechanisms.
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>    * 1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Jan. 2/4 It is all right for
>      cyberneticians to make machines like men.
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>    * 1961 J. Wilson Reason & Morals ii. 113 If men are machines, at
>      least their behaviour suggests that they are cybernetic or
>      self-regulating machines.
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>    * 1962 Listener 1 Nov. 718/1 Cyberneticians, as the people who
>      practise cybernetics now appear to call themselves, can build a
>      larynx with which an injured man can speak.
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>    * 1962 Listener 718/2 In education, too, cybernetics begins to
>      intrude as electronic teaching machines make good the lack of
>      human teachers.
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>    * 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 197/2 The integration of cells,
>      organs, and systems..appears to be done on a cybernetic basis
>      with feed-back processes..clearly interwoven at all levels.
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>    * 1970 Nature 12 Sept. 1167/1 The cyberneticist's approach to the
>      concepts of psychology is not, however, in evidence here.


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> cybernation
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> cybernation sibrnei.Sn. f. cybern(etics sb. pl. + -ation.
> The theory, practice, or condition of control by machines. Hence (as
> a back-formation)
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> cybernate
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> 'cybernate v. trans., to control in this manner;
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> cybernated
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> 'cybernated ppl. a.
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>    * 1962 D. Michael (title) Cybernation: the silent conquest.
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>    * 1962 Punch 7 Feb. 231/2 Cybernation..is becoming a dirty word
>      in America.
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>    * 1962 Catholic Gaz. Nov. 320/1 (heading) The cybernated society.
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>    * 1962 Catholic Gaz. Nov. 320/1 (heading, ) When the machines are
>      controlled by the computers human operators become unnecessary
>      and the society is cybernated... Many jobs have been partially
>      or completely cybernated.
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>    * 1963 J. A. T. Robinson Honest to God vii. 139 All the drives of
>      modern secular society, whether collectivized or cybernated.
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>    * 1969 Northwest (Sunday Oregonian Mag.) 14 Dec. 18/1 The major
>      problems of the day-cybernation, the revolution in human rights
>      and the threats of growing militarism.