cybernetic

Meaning

Adjective

• Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine.
• Of or relating to computers and internet.

Origin

• Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός ("good at steering, good pilot"), from κυβερνητική τέχνη, from Ancient Greek κυβερνισμός, κυβέρνησις, from κυβερνάω (which is also ultimately the root of govern as well). The term first recorded in English in 1948.