cyberspace
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cy·ber·space (sī′bər spās′)
noun
Etymology: cyber(netic) + space: coined by William Gibson (1948-), U.S. writer, in his novel Neuromancer (1984)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
Converse of object
- enter: And so, 10 years ago this month, the first British MP entered cyberspace.
Preposition: as
- frontier: They are also often the ones most familiar with the language of cyberspace as the final frontier and the last global commons.
Adjective modifier
- radical: Two channels are already up and running: OfflineTV â a quality-controlled screening of the best of whatâs out there in radical cyberspace.
Modifies a noun
- gang: For the Corps is beating that legendary Navy recruiter Andrew Miller at his own game - with a cyberspace press gang.
Noun used with modifier
- term: The phrase " virtual reality, " coined by Jaron Lanier ( 3 ), is more generic than the term cyberspace.
Possessives
- term: Evans What do you understand by the term ' cyberspace ' ?
Preposition: for
- user: Eventually, it is expected to automatically generate, as a whole, the optimal cyberspace for each user.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.Lines of light ranged inthenon- space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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