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).

  1. derived from *(s)peh₂-
  2. derived from spatium
  3. derived from space
  4. inherited from space
  5. compounded as cyberspace — “cybernetics + space

Definitions

  1. A world of information accessed through the Internet.

  2. 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.
  3. A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.

The neighborhood

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