DEFINITIONS

information superhighway

[ in-fer-mey-shuh n soo-per-hahy-wey ]
/ ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən ˈsu pərˌhaɪ weɪ /
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a large-scale communications network providing a variety of often interactive services, as text databases, email, and audio and video materials, accessed through computers, television sets, etc.

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Words related to information superhighway

Internet, net, web, cyberspace, WWW, infobahn

Words nearby information superhighway

information overload, information processing, information question, information retrieval, information science, information superhighway, information system, information technology, information theory, information warfare, informative

Origin of information superhighway

1975–80
Also called da·ta high·way.

historical usage of information superhighway

See Internet.
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British Dictionary definitions for information superhighway

information superhighway

noun

the concept of a worldwide network of computers capable of transferring all types of digital information at high speed
another name for the internet
Informal name: information highway
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Culture definitions for information superhighway

information superhighway

A term that describes all of the infrastructure, including cable, satellites, and assorted hardware, that allows information to be transferred at great speed over large distances to all people.

notes for information superhighway

The term implies an analogy between the construction of an information infrastructure in the Internet age with the construction of the interstate highway system constructed in the last half of the twentieth century.
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