Mediate vs Cyberenvironment - What's the difference?
mediate | cyberenvironment |
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
A cyberspace environment, one in which perception is mediated by computer.
* 2009 , David Loy, Awareness bound and unbound: Buddhist essays (page 77)
As a verb mediate
is to resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.As an adjective mediate
is acting through a mediating agency.As a noun cyberenvironment is
a cyberspace environment, one in which perception is mediated by computer.mediate
English
Verb
(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
- (Prior)
- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.
Derived terms
* mediatelyExternal links
* * ----cyberenvironment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our new cyberenvironments have begun to compress space and time so radically that we cannot help wondering if, or how, they are also altering consciousness itself. Are we on the cusp of some kind of profound transformation of the human condition?