neural
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- interneural adjective
- neurally adverb
- nonneural adjective
- postneural adjective
- preneural adjective
- subneural adjective
- unneural adjective
Etymology
Origin of neural
Example Sentences
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The researchers also observed distinct patterns of neural activity depending on whether the mice were exploring options or committing to a decision.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
Huawei said Tuesday its bundles of thousands of neural processing units would “be ahead on all fronts” including total computing power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
To address this, the researchers used tensor-polarization holography theory along with a convolutional neural network to recover all three types of data from diffraction intensity images.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
The computational model of a neural network mimicked the owl’s auditory map—the flow of auditory information—which helped Rumelhart derive a theory about how the owl’s system developed and worked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
“Can you imagine all of its neural pathways? That would be fascinating to study!”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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