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metropolitan area network
metropolitan area network A metropolitan area network, often abbreviated to MAN, is an IEEE-approved network that serves a metropolitan area such as a city or a town, although it is not restricted to such uses. For example, the term has been used to describe a network connecting a number of local u...
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network
network in computing, two or more computers connected for the purpose of routing, managing, and storing rapidly changing data. A local area network (LAN), which is restricted by distances of up to one mile, and a metropolitan area network (MAN), which is restricted to distances of up to 60 miles,...
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neural network
neural network or neural computing, computer architecture modeled upon the human brain 's interconnected system of neurons. Neural networks imitate the brain's ability to sort out patterns and learn from trial and error, discerning and extracting the relationships that underlie the data with...
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local area network
local area network (LAN), a computer network dedicated to sharing data among several single-user workstations or personal computers , each of which is called a node. A LAN can have from two to several hundred such nodes, each separated by distances of several feet to as much as a mile, and shoul...
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Kirchhoff's laws
Kirchhoff's laws [for Gustav R. Kirchhoff ], pair of laws stating general restrictions on the current and voltage in an electric circuit . The first of these states that at any given instant the sum of the voltages around any closed path, or loop, in the network is zero. The second states that at...
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Yüan
Yüan , Mongol dynasty of China that ruled from 1271 to 1368. It was a division of the great empire conquered by the Mongols . Kublai Khan , who adopted the Chinese dynastic name Yüan in 1271, swept down from N China, which the Mongols had ruled since the 1230s, and finally defeated the S...
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data communications
data communications application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers . In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. Telephone circuits are often used to...
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Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , 1936-, Italian business executive and politician, premier (1994; 2001-6, 2008-) of Italy, b. Milan. His first fortune was made in real estate during the 1960s. In the early 1980s Berlusconi founded commercial television networks that wooed the public away from the more stolid far...
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Camorra
Camorra , Italian secret criminal association in Naples. Of controversial origin, it first came to light in 1830. Its activities spread by intimidation, blackmail, and bribery until Naples was controlled by it. The Camorra appears to have been used by the Bourbon rulers of Naples as a quasi-police n...
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capillary
capillary , microscopic blood vessel, smallest unit of the circulatory system . Capillaries form a network of tiny tubes throughout the body, connecting arterioles (smallest arteries ) and venules (smallest veins ). Through the thin capillary walls, which are composed of a single layer of cells, ...
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