cyberspace
noun/ˈsaɪ.bəˌspeɪs/UK/ˈsaɪ.bəɹˌspeɪs/US
Etymology
Blend of cybernetics + space, equivalent to cyber- + space, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in his short story collection Burning Chrome (1982) and popularized in his novel Neuromancer (1984).
- derived from *(s)peh₂-✻
- derived from spatium
- derived from space
- inherited from space
Definitions
A world of information accessed through the Internet.
The Internet as a whole.
- However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.
- If, as we knew with increasing certainty, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and others were contesting us in cyberspace, it was time to fight back.
A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
The neighborhood
- antonymfleshspace
- antonymmeatspace
- neighborairspace
- neighborbattlespace
- neighborseaspace
- neighborcyberpunk
- neighbormetaverse
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cyberspace. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA