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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
• Marketing network - Networking refers to the art of creating interdependent or interconnected groups or systems for the mutual benefit of all members of the ecosystem.

In marketing therefore, it would mean, the conscious creation of interconnected relationships between distributors of products/services and their target markets either directly or through unit intermediaries for the purpose of stimulating sales or product/service acceptance.

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.