cyber
cyber Lexical Profile
cyber Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Relating to, characteristic of, or involving computers, information technology, virtual reality, and the internet.
"The government has invested heavily in protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attacks."
• noun
The domain of computer networks, digital communications, and cybersecurity, especially when viewed as a distinct operational or policy field.
"The defense department is recruiting more specialists with a background in cyber."
Interactive sexually explicit messages exchanged via computer networks (informal).
"In the early days of internet chat rooms, users frequently engaged in cyber with strangers."
• verb
To engage in online chat, especially to exchange sexually explicit messages over the internet (informal).
"They met in an online forum and spent hours cybering late into the night."
Word Nuance & Usage
As an adjective, 'cyber' is used almost exclusively attributively before a noun (e.g., 'cyber threats') or as a combining prefix ('cybersecurity'), while its noun and verb uses are informal internet slang.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Shortened in the late 20th century from 'cybernetic', which was coined by mathematician Norbert Wiener in 1948 from the Ancient Greek 'kybernetes' (steersman or pilot).