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cybernetic.

Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in living organisms or machines.

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Meaning & usage

adj/ˌsaɪbə(ɹ)ˈnɛtɪk/UK/ˌsaɪbɚˈnɛtɪk/US
  1. Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in living organisms or machines.

  2. Of or relating to computers and the Internet.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kubernētikós, “good at steering, good pilot”), from κυβερνητική τέχνη (kubernētikḗ tékhnē, “the pilot’s art”), from Ancient Greek κυβερνισμός (kubernismós), κυβέρνησις (kubérnēsis, “steering, pilotage, guiding”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”) (which is also ultimately the root of govern). The term first recorded in English in 1948.

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