cyberterror

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noun

Cyberterrorism

OriginEnglish terror ← Middle English terrour ← Middle French terreur →
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Meanings

nouncyberterror (uncountable)
  1. uncountableCyberterrorism

    He has dismissed cyberterror in reports for the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies.

    2004 September 6, “Cyberterrorism”, in Forbes, Forbes Inc., page 72
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    The committee added nearly $1.7 billion for extra antiterrorism efforts by the Pentagon and CIA, including money to protect against cyberterror attacks on computers

    2006, “Defense Policy”, in Congress and the Nation: Politics and Policy in the 107th and 108th Congress, volume 11, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, →ISBN, page 316

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκυβερνάω (kubernáō)
  2. Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
  3. Englishcyberneticclip.
  4. Englishcyber-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*tres-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*troséyeti
  7. Proto-Italic*troseō
  8. Latinterreō
  9. Latinterror
  10. Old Frenchterreur
  11. Middle Frenchterreur
  12. Middle Englishterrour
  13. Englishterror
  14. Englishcyberterror

From cyber- + terror.

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APA

cyberterror. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberterror

MLA

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberterror,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberterror.

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