prosthetic
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7.2
- adjective
- /prɒsˈθɛtɪk/
- Jargon
:
protésico
- Immobilized by the "freight of therapy sessions," AYMM is understood to be an unfinished product still braced by the prosthetic support of its crutch-like "scaffolding."
- prosthetic makeup
It's as a kind of linguistic prosthetic.
- It's as a kind of linguistic prosthetic.
Examples
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Whether it's performed in the cloud or on your smartphone is irrelevant; the resulting search technology essentially gives you a prosthetic memory.
Blog text (16) -
"Technology can become a prosthetic device—not only are patients not consulting their doctors, but they are relying on their own Internet skills," she said.
Academic text (2015) -
Given this, all culture, all technologies both hard and soft, are prosthetic for loss of life.
Academic text (1997) -
Writing in the novel, in other words, follows a logic of prosthetic attachment.
Academic text (2017) -
Well, first of all, there's the question of what convenient access to prosthetic memory will do to our biological memory; there's the oft-repeated point that people remember fewer facts now that they have Google.
Blog text (16) -
Today's kids ignore the "build the Millennium Falcon!" suggestions and use Mindstorms blocks and motors to build Lego prosthetic arms.
Blog text (3) -
Or Dix may be asserting a highly ironic form of "mechanized" masculinity, in which virility is transformed into prosthetic hardware.
Academic text (1997) -
Such a rethinking of the subject is already in evidence in David Wills's Prosthesis where he writes that "the prosthetic body will not be an exception but the paradigm for the body itself" (137).
Academic text (2017) -
In what was left of them after this thorough French erasure, a new, prosthetic consciousness of nos ancêtres les Gaulois was instilled.
Fiction book (1993) -
Digital design tools serve as prosthetic extensions of human creativity, allowing artists to visualize their ideas more effectively.
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.1
A man-made part that replaces a missing body part, for example a leg or a tooth
Surface Forms
Morphology
prosthetic = prosthesis (semi-transparent) = prosthesis + ic
Derived from 'prosthesis' + '-ic', but here used metaphorically (e.g., 'prosthetic memory'), so the relation is conceptually extended rather than strictly literal.
Etymology
Prosthetic keeps the same idea as the Greek prosthesis ('an addition'); a helpful way to remember the phrase 'prosthetic memory' is to think of films or devices 'adding' memories to people, so the word describes memories supplied or shaped by technology.