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cyberwear en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From cyber + -wear.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Clothing and accessories that offer cyber features or capabilities.
    • At noon, she'll take off her cyberwear and enjoy a sensual, tasty lunch with her family in their nonelectronic kitchen. 1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia: life in the trenches of hyperspace:
    • Consider David Warner, who makes his rounds in a "cyberwear" buzz suit that captures information from his patients' monitors... 1997, “More than screen deep”, in U.S, National Research Council:
    • These essays project trends in networked technologies, cyberwear, virtual beings, ubiquitous user-aware software, and a host of other futuristic tools... 2002, Sheila P Englebardt, Ramona Nelson, Health care informatics: an interdisciplinary approach:
    • Taking off our cyberwear to confront another with naked eyeballs will be a precious personal appearance. 2000, Sarah L Holloway, Gill Valentine, Children's geographies: playing, living, learning:

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