cyberspace

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaɪ.bəˌspeɪs/    美 /ˈsaɪ.bəɹˌspeɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A world of information accessed through the Internet. countable,uncountable
  2. The Internet as a whole. broadly,countable,dated,uncountable
    — Meanwhile, the pioneers of the computer-mediated communication networks collectively referred to as cyberspace are not willing to wait. Employing whatever tools they can find, they are constantly pushing the techno-cultural envelope. Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive, frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist, and more decentralized than hierarchical.
  3. A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network. countable,uncountable
    — I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart; it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven’, but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon.

词形变化

cyberspaces plural

词汇关系

反义词
fleshspace meatspace
相关词
airspace battlespace seaspace cyberpunk metaverse

词源

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).
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