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Cyber vs Cyberspace - What's the difference?

cyber | cyberspace |

As an adjective cyber

is pertaining to the internet;.

As a verb cyber

is (slang) to engage in cybersex.

As a noun cyberspace is

a world of information through the internet.

cyber

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to the Internet;
  • (informal) Cybergoth.
  • * 1998 , Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin
    • She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.
  • * 2007 , Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo
    • ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber , and rock.
  • * 2007 , Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture
    • No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.

    Derived terms

    * noncyber

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To engage in cybersex.
    • Wanna cyber ?

    See also

    * cyber- *

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    cyberspace

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cyberspace)
  • A world of information through the Internet.
  • (by extension) The internet as a whole.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1984 , first = William , last = Gibson , authorlink = William Gibson , title = Neuromancer , page = 51 , passage = Cyberspace . A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... }}

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    * * English terms derived from fiction