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cyberunit en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + unit.

Meanings

1. A unit (in various senses) in cyberspace or on the Internet.
   • The same cyber-unit also attacked other Albanian sites and the largest Croatian daily English newspapers. 2006, Athina Karatzogianni, The Politics of Cyberconflict:
   • Once delivered as dangerous payloads, the Chinese PLA cyberunits can exploit these remotely-planted command and control devices, to collect all manner of sensitive governmental, economic or confidential information. 2012, William Hagestad II, 21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, page 48:
   • We live in a digitalized world that is advancing and changing as you read this sentence, leading to the myth that we are losing our “humanness” and becoming cyberunits in a cyberuniverse. 1996, Jeff Williams, How to Manage Your Middle School Classroom, page 104:

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