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Definition: cyber


(1) From "cybernetics," the study of human and machine interaction, cyber is a prefix that means "computer." For example, "cybersecurity" is the same as "computer security." See cybersecurity, cybernetics, cyberactivism, cyberaffair, cyberage, cyberagent, cyberattack, cyberbully, cybercrook, cyber espionage, cybermarketing, Cyber Monday, cybersex, cybersniping, cyberspace, cybersquelch and cybersquatting.

(2) (CYBER) An early family of computers from Control Data that ranged from workstations to supercomputers. See Control Data.