spiking

English

Adjective

spiking

1. spiky
2. protruding like a spike.
   • 1912 March, Francis W. Wilson, “Structural Details of Skeleton Frame Construction”, in The Cement Age; a Magazine Devoted to the Uses of Cement, page 130:

     By referring to Figs. 1, and 2, it will be seen that the spiking pieces are all in place along the edges of the " tees " of beams and girders.

3. Associated with or causing one or more sudden sharp increases.
   • 2005, Markku Mesilaakso, Chemical Weapons Convention Chemicals Analysis, page 94:

     The presence of background material often increases the difficulty level for analysis because the background may hide the spiking chemicals or may even react with the spiking chemicals.

   • 2020, Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Kaushik Roy, “ReStpCMet: Residual Stochastic Binary Convolutional Spiking Neural Network for Memory-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing”, in Guoqi Li, ‎Yam Song (Yansong) Chua, ‎Haizhou Li, editor, Spiking Neural Network Learning, Benchmarking, Programming and Executing, page 46:

     The spikes in every 2 x 2 non-overlapping region of the convolutional maps are summed up and normalized by the kernel size (4 for a 2 x 2 kernel) to produce the pooled output maps, which are then fed to a layer of Integrate and Fire (IF) spiking neurons to generate the pooled spike maps.

   • 2023, Nitish V. Thakor, Handbook of Neuroengineering, page 1466:

     Other neuron models exist which us mathematical abstractions to model the dynamics of various spiking behaviors.

Derived terms

• spiking neural network

Verb

spiking

1. present participle and gerund of spike

Noun

spiking (plural spikings)

1. The act by which something is spiked.
   • 2012, Barry Maitland, Dark Mirror, page 18:

     You're looking for reported cases of suspected poisonings, drink-spikings leading to illness or death, unexplained deaths that could have been down to poison, anything like that.

Anagrams

• pigskin