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# bionic

«bionic» in Mova's school dictionary: **electronic or mechanical and work like real ones, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (bionic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having or being body parts that are electronic or mechanical and work like real ones, often better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#m1)

2) (informal) Super-strong or with powers beyond normal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and news, bionic arms, hands and eyes help people who have lost a limb or their sight. In TV and stories, bionic heroes run faster and see further. It mixes «biology» and «electronic».

### examples

- She has a bionic hand that she controls with her arm muscles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#x1)
- Scientists are building bionic eyes for blind people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#x2)
- In the old TV show, the bionic man could run at 60 miles per hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#x3)
- My grandad joked that his new knee was bionic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#x4)
- A bionic leg helped the athlete run again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/#x5)

### note

Pronounced bye-ON-ik. Not every artificial limb is bionic; «bionic» usually means it has electronics and motors. Real bionic parts are helpful but not super-powered.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bionic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bionic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.