Communications Devices and Networking

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Network may refer to:

Transportation

• Transport network, facilities on which people and goods move.
• Transportation network (graph theory), representations of transport networks for analysis

Media

• Radio network, create and distribute radio programming
• Television network, create and distribute television programming

Electronics, Computer Science and data processing

• Electrical network, electrical components
• Digital network, a coupled network of digital components
• Neural network
• network (mathematics), a type of graph

Computing and telecommunications

• Computer networks, which transfer information between computers
  • Wide area network, WAN
  • Local area network, LAN
  • Star network, grid network

• Telecommunications network
  • Public switched telephone networks, which route audio signals from one telephone to another

Human socialization

• Social network, business network and entrepreneurial network, are studied in sociology and economics
• The Old Boy Network is a term used when people with prior connections
• Sexual network

Physics

• Complex network, for example scale-free networks or small-world networks

Mathematics

• Graph (mathematics)
• Network theory, the applied mathematics counterpart of graph theory

Or

• Spatial network, either urban networks or networks of rooms within buildings
• Network externality, economics
• Network (film)

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