cyberunit

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noun

A unit (in various senses) in cyberspace or on the Internet.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nouncyberunit (plural cyberunits)

plural cyberunits

  1. A unit (in various senses) in cyberspace or on the Internet.

    The same cyber-unit also attacked other Albanian sites and the largest Croatian daily English newspapers.

    2006, Athina Karatzogianni, The Politics of Cyberconflict
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    We live in a digitalized world that is advancing and changing as you read this sentence, leading to the myth that we are losing our “humanness” and becoming cyberunits in a cyberuniverse.

    1996, Jeff Williams, How to Manage Your Middle School Classroom, page 104

    Once delivered as dangerous payloads, the Chinese PLA cyberunits can exploit these remotely-planted command and control devices, to collect all manner of sensitive governmental, economic or confidential information.

    2012, William Hagestad II, 21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, page 48

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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