Network, networking and networked may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects
  • Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks

Mathematics

  • Networks, a graph with attributes studied in network theory
  • Scale-free network, a network whose degree distribution follows a power law
  • Small-world network, a mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors, but have neighbors in common
  • Flow network, a directed graph where each edge has a capacity and each edge receives a flow

Biology

  • Biological network, any network that applies to biological systems
  • Ecological network, a representation of interacting species in an ecosystem
  • Neural network, a network or circuit of neurons

Technology and communication

  • Artificial neural network, a computing system inspired by animal brains
  • Broadcast network, radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets that broadcast content from a centralized source
  • News network
  • Radio network, including both broadcast and two-way communications
  • Television network, used to distribute television program content
  • Electrical network, an interconnection of electrical components
  • Social networking service, an online platform that people use to build social networks
  • Telecommunications network, allowing communication between separated nodes
  • Computer network or data network, a digital telecommunications network
  • Network hardware: Network switch, Networking cable
  • Wireless network, a computer network using wireless data connections
  • Network (typeface), used on the transport network in the West Midlands, UK

Sociology and business

  • Social network, in social science research
  • Scientific collaboration network, a social network wherein nodes are scientists and links are co-authorships
  • Social group, a network of people
  • Network of practice, a social science concept
  • Business networking, the sharing of information or services between people, companies or groups
  • Personal networking, the practice of developing and maintaining a personal network
  • Supply network, a pattern of temporal and spatial processes carried out at facility nodes and over distribution links
  • Transport network, a network in geographic space

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Network (1976 film), a 1976 American film
  • Network (2019 film), an Indian film
  • Network (album), a 2004 album by Saga
  • Network (comics), a series of Marvel Comics characters
  • Network (play), a 2017 play based on the 1976 film
  • Network (TV series), a Canadian variety television series
  • Network (video game), a 1980 business simulation game for the Apple II
  • Network, aka Taryn Haldane, a fictional character and member of the Sovereign Seven comic book series
  • Network, the members' newsletter of the British Sociological Association
  • The Network, an American new wave band
  • "The Network", a 1987 Matlock episode
  • The Network, a fictional organization in the comic strip Modesty Blaise
  • "Networking", a song by We Are the Physics from We Are the Physics Are OK at Music

Organizations

  • NETWORK (Slovak party), a political party in Slovakia
  • Network (lobby group), an American social justice group
  • The Network (group of churches), an international group of evangelical churches
  • The Network (political party), an Italian political party (1991–1999)
  • The Network (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable
  • The Network 2018, an Italian political party (2011–present)
  • Network (Russia), allegedly an anti-government anarchist organization active in Russia in 2015–2017

See also

  • List of university networks
  • Nettwerk, Nettwerk Music Group, a record label
  • Netzwerk (disambiguation)
  • Networked: The New Social Operating System, a 2012 book