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Definition: Cyberspace |
CyberspaceNoun1. A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'; a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets. Few hackers are prepared to deny outright the possibility of a cyberspace someday evolving out of the network (see the network). 2. The Internet or Matrix (sense #2) as a whole, considered as a crude cyberspace (sense 1). Although this usage became widely popular in the mainstream press during 1994 when the Internet exploded into public awareness, it is strongly deprecated among hackers because the Internet does not meet the high, SF-inspired standards they have for true cyberspace technology. Thus, this use of the term usually tags a wannabee or outsider. Oppose meatspace. 3. Occasionally, the metaphoric location of the mind of a person in hack mode. Some hackers report experiencing strong eidetic imagery when in hack mode; interestingly, independent reports from multiple sources suggest that there are common features to the experience. In particular, the dominant colors of this subjective `cyberspace' are often gray and silver, and the imagery often involves constellations of marching dots, elaborate shifting patterns of lines and angles, or moire patterns. Source: Jargon File. |
Information Technology | Electronic space-a frontier where territorial rights are being established, electronic environments are being differentiated, challenging laws that govern generating, organizing, transmitting and archiving information. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cyberspace refers to a (virtual) reality within the world's computers and computer networks. Cyberspace is a common theme in science fiction.
The word "cyberspace" was coined by William Gibson, the Canadian science fiction writer, in his 1984 bestseller Neuromancer.
While cyberspace should not be confused with the real Internet, the term is often used simply to refer to objects and identities that exist largely within the computing network itself, so that this Wikipedia, for example, might be metaphorically said to "exist in cyberspace." According to this interpretation, events taking place on the Internet are not therefore happening in the countries where the participants or the servers are physically located, but "in cyberspace". This becomes a reasonable viewpoint once distributed services (e.g. Freenet) become widespread, and the physical identity and location of the participants become impossible to determine due to anonymous or pseudonymous communication. The laws of any particular nation state would therefore not apply.
The show Digimon is set in a version of cyberspace called the "digital world". The digital world is a parallel universe made up of data from the internet. Simliar to cyberspace, except that people could actually enter this world instead of just being on a computer.
"Meatspace" is a term coined later as an opposite of "cyberspace".
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cyberspace."
Synonym: CyberspaceSynonym: internet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cyberspace |
| Specialty definitions using "cyberspace": cyberpunk, CyberZine ♦ Internet Adapter ♦ meatspace ♦ twilight zone. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cyberspace" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (cyberspace). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Killer Sex Queens from Cyberspace (1998) Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) Cyberspace (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Expanding its broadcast universe far beyond the Baltimore area and into cyberspace, the ... Credit: NASA. |
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Vinton Cerf | A visit to cyberspace is like a visit to the collective consciousness of the world. Alice's journey seems tame by comparison. Our hopes, our dreams, our monumental accomplishments, our frailties, and the everyday business of life is all there to be shared. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We should enable all the world's people to explore the far reaches of cyberspace. |
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| "Cyberspace" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cyberspace" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cyberspace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 電子空" , 网路世界. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cyberspace. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Cyberspace, grenzberschreitende Computernetzwerke, grenzüberschreitende Computernetzwerke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυβερνόχωρος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ciberspazio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사이버스페이스. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yberspacecay ciberespaço. (various references) ciberespacio. (various references) cyberspace. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "cyberspace": cyberspaces. (additional references) | |
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"Cyberspace" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cybersdpace, cybrspace. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cyberspace" (pronounced sī"berspā's) |
| 4 | -s p ā' s | Aerospace, airspace. |
| 3 | -p ā' s | outpace. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-p-r-s-y" | |
-3 letters: escaper, eyebars, peccary, respace, secrecy. | |
-4 letters: baryes, becaps, braces, cabers, capers, crapes, crease, creasy, creeps, creepy, crepes, crepey, cypres, escape, escarp, eyebar, pacers, parsec, payees, payers, peaces, rebecs, recaps, recces, repays, scarce, scarey, scrape, secpar, serape, spacer, spacey, yerbas. | |
-5 letters: abyes, acerb, acres, apers, apery, apres, asper, bares, barye, baser, bears, becap, beeps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: cyberspaces. | |
+5 letters: brachycephalies. | |
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