Hybrid (disambiguation)
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A hybrid in biology refers to the offspring resulting from cross-breeding of different species.
Hybrid generally refers to something of mixed origin or composition:
- Hybrid vehicle, a vehicle that uses a mixture of technologies such as internal combustion engines and electric motors.
- Hybrid bicycle, a cross between a road and mountain bicycle.
- Hybrid word, a word with mixed etymologies.
- Hybrid (band), is a British electronic music group formed in the late 1990s.
- Orbital hybridisation, in chemistry.
- "Hybrid - living in paradox", the focal point of the Festival Ars Electronica in 2005. It adressed the rapid ongoing abrogation of boundaries and fusions in art, technology and society.
In engineering:
A functional unit in which two or more different technologies are combined. Examples include:
- Hybrid circuit, consists of several components encapsulated into one unit. Older usage of the term refers to a circuit having both vacuum tubes and transistors.
- A computer network that is a combination of star network, bus network, ring network or other network topologies.
- Resistance hybrid or a hybrid coil.
- Systems containing both continuous and discrete sample times. (For example: in control theory.)
