neural network

noun

: a computer architecture in which a number of processors are interconnected in a manner suggestive of the connections between neurons in a human brain and which is able to learn by a process of trial and error

called also neural net

Examples of neural network in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The guardrails monitor the spacecraft’s condition and the neural network’s outputs, intervening when predefined safety limits are approached. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026

John, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, has spent the past five years working on a class of models called weightless neural networks. — Jackie Snow, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026

Even during earnings calls, discussions about new vehicle models often take a back seat to conversations about neural networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence. — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Whitelam showed that the resulting dynamics followed a path that dissipated the minimal amount of heat — by a rough comparison, about 100 billion times less than would be produced if the same task were performed by a digital neural network. — Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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