English Dictionary

cyberpunk

noun

(science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

I love reading cyberpunk novels.

意味（1）

(science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.

意味（2）

(countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

The film “The Matrix” redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.

意味（3）

(countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.

[…] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd, Bruce Sterling […]

意味（4）

(music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E₆₀ and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E₁₉ and the 13th root of 3.