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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bionic
adjective
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▪ By pushing industrial processes toward the organic model, bionic engineers create a spectrum of ecosystem types.
▪ In the following chapters I survey this unified bionic frontier.
▪ Kelly is bionic but still very young.
▪ Mechanics will be needed to manufacture bionic appendages.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bionic

1901, as a term in the study of fossils, from Greek. bios "life" (see bio-). Meaning "pertaining to bionics" is recorded from 1963. Popular sense of "superhumanly gifted or durable" is from 1976, from popular U.S. television program "The Bionic Man" and its spin-offs.

Wiktionary
bionic

a. 1 (context not comparable English) Related to bionics. 2 Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg. 3 superhuman

WordNet
bionic
  1. adj. of or relating to bionics

  2. having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components

Wikipedia
Bionic (Sandbox album)

Bionic is the debut album of the Canadian rock band, Sandbox. The album was recorded at Metalworks Studios between January and February of 1995. It was released in 1995 on Latitude Records. An enhanced edition was later released in 1996.

The album's first single, "Curious", reached #34 on Canada's RPM Singles chart and #8 on Canada's Alternative chart. The song also received regular airplay on MuchMusic. Videos were later also released for the singles "Collide" and "Here and There".

Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)

Bionic is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Christina Aguilera. It was released on June 4, 2010 by RCA Records. Inspired by Aguilera's taste for electronic music, Bionic is characterized as an electropop, electro-R&B and futurepop record. Its first half consists of electronic tracks incorporating synthesizers and electronic beats, while the second half displays a balladic production. The album's main themes are described as sex and post-feminism.

Bionic received mixed reviews from music critics. Commercially the album did not match the chart impact and sales of her previous releases. It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 110,000 copies and has sold 330,000 units in the United States as of September 2012. Internationally the album peaked inside the top 10 in most countries, including a number one debut on the UK Albums Chart.

Bionic spawned two international singles; " Not Myself Tonight" was released in April 2010, and " You Lost Me" was released in June. " Woohoo" was released in the United States and some European countries, while " I Hate Boys" was exclusively released in Australia and New Zealand. Bionic was promoted in mid-2010 by television performances, such as Aguilera's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, American Idol, and Today. A concert tour was initially planned to support the album; nevertheless it never materialized.

Bionic (disambiguation)

Bionic or bionics may refer to:

Bionic (Christina Aguilera song)

"Bionic" is a song recorded by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, taken from her sixth studio album of the same name (2010). The song was written by Aguilera, Kalenna Harper, John Hill and Switch, while production was done by the latter two. "Bionic" is an electronic number and has garnered comparisons to works by artists including Santigold and Janet Jackson.

Aguilera performed "Bionic" as an introduction to " Not Myself Tonight" on a number of occasions, including the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, The Today Show and VH1 Storytellers. Upon the release of Bionic, the song peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 66, and on the Korean Gaon International Download Chart at number 23.

Bionic (software)

Bionic is the standard C library (including libc, libdl, libm, and libpthread) developed by Google for its Android operating system.

GNU C Library with Bionic. Both libraries provide, among other functionality, wrappers around the system calls of the Linux kernel.

Bionic (King Adora song)

"Bionic" is the fifth single by British glam rock band King Adora. Originally released as a part of a double a-side in 2000, the re-recorded single was released on 14 May 2001 on Superior Quality Recordings and reached number 30 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's second and final Top 40 single. The song would be included on the band's debut album Vibrate You and was frequently played at their live shows.

Usage examples of "bionic".

Angels and Charlie the Tuna and the Lone Ranger and the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman and Josephine the Plumber and Gavin MacLeod and Blake Carrington and Alexis and Dobie Gillis and Gilligan and the Skipper and That Girl and Charles Nelson Reilly and Allen Ludden and Betty White and Big Bird and Maude and Sam Malone and Sam McCloud and Pat Robertson and Kermit and Barney and Willard Scott and Rin Tin Tin and David Brinkley and Perry Mason and the Millionaire and Mr.

The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman are simply episodes of whizbang feats of strength, speed and visual or acoustic acuity by the Bionically enhanced humans.

Sunset Boulevard, with a scalp rich in astroturf, a mouthful of cobalt and Strontium 90 and a million bucks of computerized courting-tackle, this bionic bullybag nestling between my thighs.

I threw myself on the mercy of Esmerelda, a black librarian of somewhere between ninety and a hundred who contained within her bionic hairdo all knowledge, or the ability to find it.

It was the bionic component of your ocular implants that became infected.

The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman are simply episodes of whiz-bang feats of strength, speed and visual or acoustic acuity by the Bionically enhanced humans.

They want to become "post-human"-to make their bodies like the Bionic Woman's and the Six Million Dollar Man's-to go to the next level of bodyhood.

Winslow, with her psychic powers and her bionic ear, will surely be waiting -- and between her, Mouse, and Dr.

She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on 'The Bionic Man' and all those 'Star Trek' reruns.

He had been fitted with a bionic heart, liver, and kidneys, and also suffered from a maverick strain of chronic lymphocytic leukemia that defied treatment.

The cabin was almost dark and more than half filled with trophies, including an assassin droid's head, a con woman's four-barreled hold-out blaster, a spy's bionic arm, a bank robber's satchel, and much, much more.

The house-to-car therapist takes me by the hand and I'm off, sailing down Sunset Boulevard, with a scalp rich in astroturf, a mouthful of cobalt and Strontium 90 and a million bucks of computerized courting-tackle, this bionic bullybag nestling between my thighs.