GAN

• IPA^(key): /ɡæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

GAN (countable and uncountable, plural GANs)

1. (machine learning) Acronym of generative adversarial network.
   • 2020, Micheal Lanham, Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 248:

     The GAN we look at in the next exercise is a vanilla GAN with convolution.

2. (literature) Initialism of Great American Novel.
   • 1973, Philip Roth, The Great American Novel, Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 38:

     During that week of squall in March of that year Hem would talk till dawn about which son of a bitch who could spell cat was going to write the G.A.N.

3. (pathology, uncountable) Acronym of giant axonal neuropathy.
4. (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of good article nomination.

• AGN, ANG, GNA, NGA, nag