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cybernetics
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cybernetics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
Derivative
cybernetic adj. cybernetician n. cyberneticist n.
Etymology
Gk kubernetes steersman
THESAURUS
cybernetics
aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, automatic electronics, autonetics, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, circuit analysis, communication theory, cryobiology, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, information theory, life science, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radio control, radiobiology, servo engineering, servomechanics, system engineering, systems analysis, systems planning, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoologyFor further exploring for "cybernetics" in Webster Dictionary Online