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cybernetics
 
 
(seye-buhr-NET-iks) The general study of control and communication systems in living organisms and machines, especially the mathematical analysis of the flow of information. The term cybernetics was coined by Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician of the twentieth century.  1
 
 
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