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- [noo r-on, nyoo r-]
- /ˈnʊər ɒn, ˈnyʊər-/
- /ˈnjʊə.rɒn/
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- [noo r-on, nyoo r-]
- /ˈnʊər ɒn, ˈnyʊər-/
Definitions of neuron word
- abbreviation Technical meaning of NEURON artificial neural network 3
- noun neuron Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites. 1
- noun neuron A specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses; a nerve cell. 1
- noun neuron biology: nerve cell 1
- noun Technical meaning of neuron (artificial intelligence) (ANN, commonly just "neural network" or "neural net") A network of many very simple processors ("units" or "neurons"), each possibly having a (small amount of) local memory. The units are connected by unidirectional communication channels ("connections"), which carry numeric (as opposed to symbolic) data. The units operate only on their local data and on the inputs they receive via the connections. A neural network is a processing device, either an algorithm, or actual hardware, whose design was inspired by the design and functioning of animal brains and components thereof. Most neural networks have some sort of "training" rule whereby the weights of connections are adjusted on the basis of presented patterns. In other words, neural networks "learn" from examples, just like children learn to recognise dogs from examples of dogs, and exhibit some structural capability for generalisation. Neurons are often elementary non-linear signal processors (in the limit they are simple threshold discriminators). Another feature of NNs which distinguishes them from other computing devices is a high degree of interconnection which allows a high degree of parallelism. Further, there is no idle memory containing data and programs, but rather each neuron is pre-programmed and continuously active. The term "neural net" should logically, but in common usage never does, also include biological neural networks, whose elementary structures are far more complicated than the mathematical models used for ANNs. See Aspirin, Hopfield network, McCulloch-Pitts neuron. 1
- countable noun neuron A neuron is a cell which is part of the nervous system. Neurons send messages to and from the brain. 0
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Origin of neuron
First appearance:
before 1880 One of the 23% newest English words
First recorded in 1880-85, neuron is from the Greek word neûron sinew, cord, nerve
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Parts of speech for Neuron
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neuron popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
neuron usage trend in Literature
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- what is a neuron?
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- what part of a neuron houses the nucleus?
- what part of the neuron receives signals?
- where in the neuron is an action potential initially generated?
- which structure is not part of a neuron?
- what happens when a neuron is stimulated by another neuron?
- what is the resting membrane potential of a neuron?
- what is a motor neuron?
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- what structural classification describes this neuron?
- how do messages travel from one neuron to another?
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- where is the nucleus of a neuron located?
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