IW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does IW mean? 

• IW (noun)
  The noun IW has 1 sense:

1. the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries

  Familiarity information: IW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

information warfare; IW

Context example:

not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare

Hypernyms ("IW" is a kind of...):

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)