Skynet

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A family of United Kingdom military communications satellites.
• A distributed artificial intelligence system that is aware of the physical world and acts autonomously through cyborgs and computer control systems.

Origin

• From sky and network. The first satellite, Skynet 1A, was launched on 22 November 1969.
• From the Terminator film series, the first of which, The Terminator, premiered in 1984.