Connectionist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An advocate of connectionism.

    "At the helm of the connectionists was [Frank] Rosenblatt and his Perceptron, an early proof of concept for a machine learning system."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to connectionism. not-comparable

Example

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"At the helm of the connectionists was [Frank] Rosenblatt and his Perceptron, an early proof of concept for a machine learning system."

Etymology

From connection + -ist.

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