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cyberstructure en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + structure.

Meanings

1. A structure or entity in cyberspace; an information construct.
   • The three-dimensional cyberstructures made of text cues, floating images, and thumbnails provide me with an index... 1997, Steven R Holtzman, Digital mosaics: the aesthetics of cyberspace:
   • The real topic in computing is the cybersphere and the cyberstructures in it, not the computers we use as telescopes and tuners. 2003, John Brockman, The new humanists: science at the edge:
   • Outweighing these difficulties, in my judgment, is the fact that the only way to push forward into this new environment is to adapt existing cyberstructures... 2000, Susanmarie Harrington, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Day, The online writing classroom:
   • In what ways is cyberculture a mould, a cyberstructure, as a technology-as-process, perhaps one akin to a coral reef that grows, is eaten away, regrows? 1999, Ángel J Gordo-López, Ian Parker, Cyberpsychology:

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