cyberpower

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English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ power

Noun

cyberpower (countable and uncountable, plural cyberpowers)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Power exerted in or through the Internet or cyberspace.
    • 2002, Tim Jordan, Cyberpower: An Introduction to the Politics of Cyberspace, page 212:
      This is the fundamental dynamic between the cyberpowers of the individual and the social. It is also a dynamic driven forward by the third level of cyberpower.
  2. (countable) An entity possessing such power.
    • 2014, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, page 45:
      Major cyberpowers have engaged in cyberespionage on each other, and committed acts of disruption of information operations or degrading of stored information.

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