cyborgとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.bɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.boɹɡ/, [ˈsaɪ.bo̞ɹɡ]

名詞

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 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones:

     ... 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 July 14, Anthony Lane, “The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru”, in The New Yorker:

     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.

   • 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

     Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

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

同意語

• bion
• cybernetic organism
• cyberman

派生語

関連する語

• borg

動詞

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

参照

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2025), “cyborg, v.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Further reading

• cyborg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia