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Noun: neural network
  1. Computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons; can learn by trial and error
    "The AI system used a neural network to recognize patterns in the data";
    - neural net
     
  2. Any network of neurons or nuclei that function together to perform some function in the body
    "The neural network in the brain processes visual information";
    - neural net

Derived forms: neural networks

Type of: computer architecture, reticulum

Part of: nervous system, systema nervosum

Encyclopedia: Neural network