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bionics

noun
/ˈbaɪˌɒnɪks/UK

Etymology

From bio- + electronics. Coined by US Air Force medical doctor Jack E. Steele in 1958 to refer to the "flow of concepts from biology to engineering and vice versa".

  1. derived from ἰόν
  2. compounded as electron — “electric + ion”
  3. suffixed as electronics — “electron + ics”
  4. prefixed as bionics — “bio + electronics”

Definitions

  1. The design of engineering systems, especially electronic ones, based on that of…

    The design of engineering systems, especially electronic ones, based on that of biological systems.

  2. biomimetics

The neighborhood

Derived

nanobionics

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bionics. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA