cyberspace

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˌspeɪs/, SAMPA: /"saI.b@(r)%speIs/
• enPR: SAÏ-buhr-speïs

Etymology

A portmanteau of cybernetics and space, coined by science-fiction writer William Gibson in his 1982 short story collection Burning Chrome and popularized in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

Noun

Wikipedia cyberspace (countable and uncountable; plural cyberspaces)

1. A world of information through the Internet.
2. (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.

Translations

world of information

Chinese: Mandarin: 網絡空間 (cmn), 网络空间 (cmn) (wǎngluò kōngjiān), 虛擬空間 (cmn), 虚拟空间 (cmn) (xūnĭ kōngjiān), 賽博空間 (cmn), 赛博空间 (cmn) (sàibó kōngjiān) Estonian: küberruum (et) Finnish: kyberavaruus (fi)

Italian: cyberspazio (it) m., ciberspazio (it) m. Japanese: サイバースペース (ja) (saibāsupēsu) Polish: cyberprzestrzeń (pl) f. Russian: киберпространство (ru) (kiberprostránstvo) n.

science fiction: three-dimensional representation of virtual space

Chinese: Mandarin: 網絡空間 (cmn), 网络空间 (cmn) (wǎngluò kōngjiān), 虛擬空間 (cmn), 虚拟空间 (cmn) (xūnĭ kōngjiān), 賽博空間 (cmn), 赛博空间 (cmn) (sàibó kōngjiān)

Estonian: küberruum (et) Finnish: kyberavaruus (fi) Polish: cyberprzestrzeń (pl) f. Russian: киберпространство (ru) (kiberprostránstvo) n.

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Slovene: kiberprostor m.

Anagrams

• cyberscape