bodynet

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noun

An array of technology attached to the body.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounbodynet (plural bodynets)

plural bodynets

  1. literatureAn array of technology attached to the body.

    With this technology, in the near future, people can participate in parties without leaving the house, needing only to dress in a bodynet (clothe^([sic]) with sensors).

    2008, Julio Francisco Dantas de Rezende, Transpersonal Management: lessons from the Matrix trilogy
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    Think of yourself on some evening in the not-so-distant future, when wearable, fitted, and implanted electronic organs connected by bodynets are as commonplace as cotton […]

    1996, William J. Mitchell, City of bits: space, place, and the infobahn

    A cathedral of light, if you will, of prefabricated carbon-fiber and lightweight synthetic thermal resins; equipped with stereo-immersive walls and motion sensors that respond via a bodynet to my ever shifting loci of desires and needs […]

    1998, John Beckmann, The virtual dimension: architecture, representation, and crash culture

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“bodynet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bodynet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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