different between cyber vs cybernetic

English

Etymology

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.b?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.b??/
• Hyphenation: cy?ber
• Rhymes: -a?b?(r)

Adjective

cyber (not comparable)

1. Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber-
2. (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.

Derived terms

• cyberly
• noncyber

Verb

cyber (third-person singular simple present cybers, present participle cybering, simple past and past participle cybered)

1. (slang) To engage in cybersex.

   Wanna cyber?

Noun

cyber

1. (singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.
   • 2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice

     These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.

   • 2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber

     The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

See also

• cyber-
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• Bryce, becry

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????????? (kubern?tikós, “good at steering, good pilot”), from ??????????? ????? (kubern?tik? tékhn?, “the pilot’s art”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kubernismós), ?????????? (kubérn?sis, “steering, pilotage, guiding”), from ???????? (kuberná?, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”) (which is also ultimately the root of govern as well). The term first recorded in English in 1948.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sa?b?(?)?n?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?b??n?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

cybernetic (comparative more cybernetic, superlative most cybernetic)

1. Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine.
2. Of or relating to computers and internet.

Related terms

• cyber-
• cybernetics
• cybernetically
• cyber
• cyberneticist, cybernetician

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