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synfire

synfire adjective: being or relating to a feedforward network of neurons with multiple layers or pools, where neural impulses propagate synchronously back and forth from layer to layer.

Adjective

synfire (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a feedforward network of neurons with multiple layers or pools, where neural impulses propagate synchronously back and forth from layer to layer.

Origin of synfire

Short for synchronous firing; first used by Moshe Abeles in 1982.

Questions about synfire

What does synfire mean?
Synfire means being or relating to a feedforward network of neurons with multiple layers or pools, where neural impulses propagate synchronously back and forth from layer to layer.
What part of speech is synfire?
Synfire is an adjective.

Words near synfire in the dictionary

  1. synezeses
  2. synezesis
  3. synezetic
  4. synezeugmenon
  5. synfibrosis
  6. synfire
  7. synflood
  8. synflooded
  9. synflooding
  10. synfloods
  11. synflorescence

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