from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
adjective Of, relating to, or located on the same side of the body as the spinal cord; dorsal.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One of the bony plates that lie upon and fuse with the summit of the spinous process and take part in the formation of the carapace of a turtle.
Pertaining to nerves or the nervous system at large; nervous.
Specifically, of or relating to the cerebrospinal nervous system of a vertebrate.
Situated on that side of the body, with reference to the vertebral axis, on which the brain and spinal cord lie; dorsal or tergal: opposed to ventral, sternal, visceral, or hemal.
In physiology, done or taking place in the nerves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective (Anat. & Zoöl.) relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. hemal.
adjective (Anat.) the cartilaginous or bony arch on the dorsal side of the centrum of the vertebra in a segment of the spinal skeleton, usually inclosing a segment of the spinal cord.
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adjective biology Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
adjective computingModelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective of or relating to neurons
adjective of or relating to the nervous system
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neuron, "a sinew, nerve") + -al.
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You may have heard the term neural connections—these are the biochemical “wires” that get created as you experience life.
Every time you experience something, your brain lays down what they call a neural network and then when you get new sensory information you tend to shunt what you are getting into the old neural networks.
It is also true that these covariances of mental ability correspond to covariances in neural characteristics, and so psychologists believe that the explanation of this covariance will be found in terms of neurological function.
Practically speaking, if you could show that some sub-atomic particle was, like the graviton, exchanged between matter, but also interacted with the sub-atomic activity in neural systems, functioning as a mechanism of information exchange, then you have a medium by which my desire at point A can be communicated to you at point C.
Practically speaking, if you could show that some sub-atomic particle was, like the graviton, exchanged between matter, but also interacted with the sub-atomic activity in neural systems, functioning as a mechanism of information exchange, then you have a medium by which my desire at point A can be communicated to you at point C.
Both the r/ChatGPT post that the r/accelerate moderator refers to and the moderator announcement itself refer to these users as “Neural Howlround” posters, a term that originates from a self-published paper, and is referring to high-pitched feedback loop produced by putting a microphone too close to the speaker it’s connected to.
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