noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an interface to cyberspace.

   "More than twelve hours had passed since the decker had touched the cyberdeck keyboard."

2. 2
   A custom-built, portable computer. informal

Example

More examples

"More than twelve hours had passed since the decker had touched the cyberdeck keyboard."

Etymology

From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.

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