Hybrid (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

The term hybrid has the following meanings

• Hybrid -- made up of parts drawn from multiple but similar sources to create something new.
  • Haraway's cyborg is a metaphoric human/machine hybrid.
• Hybrid -- a term in biology.
• Hybrid can refer to systems containing both continuous and discrete sample times, e.g. in control theory.
• Hybrid in engineering and telecommunications is a functional unit in which two or more different technologies are combined to satisfy a given requirement.

  Note: Examples of hybrids include (a) an electronic circuit having both vacuum tubes and transistors, (b) a mixture of thin-film and discrete integrated circuits, and (c) a computer, or electronic device that has both analog and digital capability.

  • resistance hybrid.
  • hybrid coil.

  Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

• Hybrid words have mixed etymologies.
• A hybrid may also refer to a hybrid vehicle.
• Hybrid is also the name of a British electronic music group formed in the late 1990s.
• Hybrid atomic orbitals in chemistry.
• Hybrid Bicycle tires (thickness in between mountain and road tires).
• HYBRID is also the name of a roleplaying game, best described as the Time Cube of the RPG world.