multilayer perceptron

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

multilayer perceptron

   A network composed of more than one layer of {neurons}, with
   some or all of the outputs of each layer connected to one or
   more of the inputs of another layer.  The first layer is
   called the input layer, the last one is the output layer, and
   in between there may be one or more hidden layers.