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cyberwear

cyberwear noun: clothing and accessories that offer cyber features or capabilities.

cyberwear: clothing and accessories that offer cyber features or capabilities
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Noun

cyberwear (uncountable)

  1. (rare) 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

Examples of cyberwear in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Origin of cyberwear

From cyber + -wear.

Questions about cyberwear

What does cyberwear mean?
Cyberwear means clothing and accessories that offer cyber features or capabilities.
How do you use cyberwear in a sentence?
Taking off our cyberwear to confront another with naked eyeballs will be a precious personal appearance.
What part of speech is cyberwear?
Cyberwear is a noun.

Words near cyberwear in the dictionary

  1. cyberwarriors
  2. cyberwars
  3. cyberweapon
  4. cyberweaponry
  5. cyberweapons
  6. cyberwear
  7. cyberwedding
  8. cyberweddings
  9. cyberwhore
  10. cyberwhores
  11. cyberwife

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