Hybrid (disambiguation)

A hybrid in biology refers to the offspring resulting from cross-breeding of different species.

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Hybrid generally refers to something of mixed origin or composition:

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• 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:

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A functional unit in which two or more different technologies are combined. Examples include:

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• 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.)