Origin and history of electronic

1901 as a term in the study of fossils, in reference to the quality of an organism that repeats its characteristics in successive generations, from Greek bios "life" (from PIE root *gwei- "to live"). The meaning "pertaining to bionics" is recorded from 1963, with ending ultimatel

1982, short for electronic mail (1977; see electronic + mail (n.1)); this led to the contemptuous application of snail mail (1983) to the old system. Even aerial navigation in 1999 was found too slow to convey and deliver the mails. The pneumatic tube system was even swifter, an

sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic...

1704; that of "something that is attached to something else" dates from 1797 and has become very common since the rise of electronic...

Meaning "short, high-pitched electronic pulse" is attested from 1943....

Meaning "change in the wave-form of a signal by an electronic device" is from 1887, specifically of amplifiers by 1962....

Postliterate man's electronic media contract the world to a village or tribe where everything happens to everyone at the...

"large, voracious fish," by 1560s, perhaps mid-15c., if an isolated instance in a diary quoted in Middle English Compendium is the same word, of uncertain origin. The meaning "dishonest person who preys on others," though attested from 1599 (sharker "artful swindler" in this sens

c. 1300, from French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Tourkos, Persian turk, a national name, of unknown origin. Said to mean "strength" in Turkish. Compare Chinese tu-kin, recorded from c. 177 B.C.E. as the name of a people living south of the Altai Mountai

late 14c., "to settle a dispute, determine a controversy," from Old French decider, from Latin decidere "to decide, determine," literally "to cut off," from de "off" (see de-) + caedere "to cut" (from PIE root *kae-id- "to strike"). For Latin vowel change, see acquisition. Sense