wetware

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Definition of wetware

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang, uncountable)The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.
    “What is not understood is the power hunger that resides in what the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby calls the "wetware"— the human brain about which we know very little except that it is composed of about 75 percent water.”
    “… cyberpunk dream to leave behind the fallible "meat" or "wetware" of the body by entering the datasphere ...”
    “Over the weekend, an impressive crossword-solving computer program, called Dr. Fill, which I wrote about earlier, matched its digital wits against the wetware of 600 of the nation’s best human solvers at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.”
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noun

  1. (slang, uncountable)The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.
    “What is not understood is the power hunger that resides in what the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby calls the "wetware"— the human brain about which we know very little except that it is composed of about 75 percent water.”
    “… cyberpunk dream to leave behind the fallible "meat" or "wetware" of the body by entering the datasphere ...”
    “Over the weekend, an impressive crossword-solving computer program, called Dr. Fill, which I wrote about earlier, matched its digital wits against the wetware of 600 of the nation’s best human solvers at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.”
  2. (slang, uncommon, uncountable)The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.
  3. (uncountable)The underlying generative code for an organism, as found in the genetic material, in the biochemistry of the cells, or in the architecture of the body’s tissues.

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Etymology

From wet + -ware (suffix denoting a type of software).

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