different between electronic vs cyber

English

Etymology

electron +? -ic

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l.?k?t??n.?k/, /??l.?k?t??n.?k/, /??l?k?t??n.?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?k?t??n.?k/, /?i?.l?k?t??n.?k/

Adjective

electronic (not comparable)

1. (physics, chemistry): Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
2. Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
3. Generated by an electronic device.

4. Of or pertaining to the Internet.

Derived terms

Pages starting with “electronic”.

• electronification
• electronified
• electronify
• optoelectronic

Related terms

• electric
• electrical

Translations

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.lek?t?o.nik/

Adjective

electronic (not comparable)

1. electronic

Romanian

Etymology

From French électronique

Adjective

electronic m or n (feminine singular electronic?, masculine plural electronici, feminine and neuter plural electronice)

1. electronic

Declension

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