1
: of, relating to, or affecting a nerve or the nervous system
2
: situated in the region of or on the same side of the body as the brain and spinal cord : dorsal
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She suffers from a neural disorder.
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Trystan Loustau and Liane Young, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
On the Inside: Arming Up With Qualcomm Snapdragon X
Inside, the A14 is outfitted with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor, running Windows 11 on Arm with a neural processing unit, or NPU, that drives 45 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS), giving you the whole Copilot+ PC experience.
—Brian Westover, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
Arrow Lake processors can include many more CPU cores, but only Lunar Lake uses Intel's latest GPU architecture and a neural processing unit (NPU) fast enough for Microsoft's Copilot+ functionality.
—Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
Because of the way our pupils change in response to brain activity, signaling states such as arousal, there's been some evidence that, when asleep, the eyes may offer similar clues reflecting neural processes.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Neural.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neural. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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neural
adjective
neu·ral
ˈn(y)u̇r-əl 
: of, relating to, or affecting a nerve or the nervous system
Medical Definition
neural
adjective
neu·ral
ˈn(y)u̇r-əl
1
: of, relating to, or affecting a nerve or the nervous system
2
: situated in the region of or on the same side of the body as the brain and spinal cord : dorsal compare hemal sense 2
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