Psychotronic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to psychotronics. not-comparable

    "1995, Owen Matthews, Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret Psychotronic Weapons, TheMoscowTimes.com "Reports have emerged of a top secret program of "psychotronic" brainwashing techniques developed by the KGB and the Ministry of Defense in the 1970s to turn soldiers into fearless, unquestioning fighting machines and enemies into lethargic vegetables. The techniques, which include debilitating high frequency radio waves, hypnotic computer-scrambled sounds and mind-bending electromagnetic fields, as well as an ultrasound gun capable of killing a cat at fifty meters..""

  2. 2
    Of or relating to a genre of low-budget films featuring fantastic horror or science fiction themes not-comparable

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"1995, Owen Matthews, Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret Psychotronic Weapons, TheMoscowTimes.com "Reports have emerged of a top secret program of "psychotronic" brainwashing techniques developed by the KGB and the Ministry of Defense in the 1970s to turn soldiers into fearless, unquestioning fighting machines and enemies into lethargic vegetables. The techniques, which include debilitating high frequency radio waves, hypnotic computer-scrambled sounds and mind-bending electromagnetic fields, as well as an ultrasound gun capable of killing a cat at fifty meters..""

Etymology

See psychotronics

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