cybernate

[sahy-ber-neyt]

verb (used with object)

cybernated, cybernating 

1. to control by cybernation.

cybernate

/ ˈsaɪbəˌneɪt /

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• cybernation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cybernate¹

First recorded in 1960–65; back formation from cybernation

Word History and Origins

Origin of cybernate¹

C20: from _cyber ( _netics ) + _-ate ¹

Example Sentences

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

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