Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cyberdeck

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cy-berdeck
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an interface to cyberspace.

noun

A custom-built, portable computer.

Informal

Example Sentences

"More than twelve hours had passed since the decker had touched the cyberdeck keyboard."
"...then the interface that provides the experience — say, a cyberdeck — becomes a quantifiable metric of human experience as well as a commodity."
"...people fused either temporarily or permanently with machinery (by brain implants, by jacking in to the cyberdeck, etc.)..."
"...a glove with silver metallic weaving and a black cord that was connected to his cyberdeck."

Etymology

From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: cyber

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

cyberdecks (plural)

Questions

What does cyberdeck mean?: A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an interface to cyberspace.
Where does cyberdeck come from?: From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.

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