Network

In general, the term network can refer to any interconnected group or system. Several different types of networks exist, including:

Human networks

• Business network
• Economic network
• Entrepreneurial network
• Old boy network
• Sexual network
• Social network
• Value network

Media

• Radio network, create and distribute radio programming through multiple channels that connect in a network
• Television network, create and distribute television programming through multiple channels that connect in a network
• Network (film), an Academy Award winning film from 1976
• Nettwerk, a record label
• The Network, a band
• Network (comics), a name given to several Marvel Comics super heroes
• Network (computer game), an economic simulation for the Apple II personal computer

Technology

• Electrical network, a network of electrical components
• Computer network, a network of computers
  • Computer networking, the scientific and engineering discipline concerned with this kind of network
• Telecommunications network, a network of telecommunications links
• Energy transmission and distribution networks
  • Electric power transmission network, a network of conduits for bulk transmission of electric power
  • Electricity distribution network, a network of conduits for delivery or short-haul transmission of electric power
  • Pipeline transport network, a network of pipes for transmission of gases, usually natural gas
  • Gas distribution network, a network of pipes for delivery of gases, usually natural gas or, formerly, town gas
  • Network Systems system network, a system of combined networks of main systems

Science, mathematics, and engineering

• Network theory, the applied mathematics counterpart of graph theory, especially in combinatorial optimization
• Flow network, an assignment of flow to the edges of a directed graph where each edge has a capacity
• Network (mathematics), a type of diagraph in graph theory
• Neural network, an interconnected group of biological neurons
• Artificial neural network, an interconnected group of artificial neurons
• Gene regulatory network, a directed graph representation of the regulation of gene expression
• Signal transduction network, a directed graph representation for proteins and other biomolecules involved in Signal transduction
• Protein-protein interaction network (or Interactome graph), an undirected graph representing possible interactions between each pair of proteins in a proteome

Other

• Transport network, facilities on which people and goods move
• Spatial network, urban networks or networks of rooms within buildings
• Network effect, a characteristic that causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service
• NETWORK (Catholic Lobby), a national Catholic social justice lobbying group based in Washington, DC.