e-circle

noun

e-circle

noun

Etymology From e- + circle.

1

A circle of friends on the Internet.

  • Virtual communities, Web-conferencing, chat rooms, e-circles — the names for the new computer technologies of the 1990s resonate with images of collaboration.2000, Dennis A. Trinkle, Scott A. Merriman, History.edu: Essays on Teaching with Technology, page vii:
  • His godfather, part of yet another family, helps him maintain an e-circle of friends who make up his garage band.2010, J. A. English-Lueck, Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley:

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