(machine learning) A neural network in which the outputs are not used as input in a previous layer.

(biochemistry) A complex network of membranes and associated vesicles within the Golgi apparatus, where departing proteins are assigned a destination according to their signal sequence.

(computing) A computer network that covers a large geographic area.

(computing) An interconnection of computers that are in relatively close proximity to each other, such as within a building.

(networking) The transmission of voice, data, video and any other form of information in packets over the same network.

a network that covers a large geographical area such as a city.

(idiomatic) A presumed unacknowledged system of association between childhood friends (especially those at school or university together), used for mutual assistance or favouritism.

plural of network interface card

A computer hardware component designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network.

(mathematics) A kind of graph in which most nodes are not neighbors but most can be reached from every other by a small number of steps, i.e. the typical distance between two randomly chosen nodes grows proportionally to the logarithm of the number of nodes in the network.