cybernate

American

[sahy-ber-neyt] / ˈsaɪ bərˌneɪt /

verb (used with object)

cybernated, cybernating

to control by cybernation.

cybernate British

/ ˈsaɪbəˌneɪt /

verb

to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism

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Other Word Forms

cybernation noun

Etymology

Origin of cybernate

First recorded in 1960–65; back formation from cybernation

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There are no smartphones onscreen, but everywhere you look are shabby analogues of cybernated commerce.

From The New Yorker

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