WAN

See also: Appendix:Variations of "wan"

Translingual

Symbol

WAN

(international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Nigeria.
Synonym: NGA (for general use)

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Nigeria is NGA.

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wæn/
Rhymes: -æn

Noun

WAN (plural WANs)

(networking) Acronym of wide area network.
Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.

Antonyms

LAN

Hypernyms

LPWAN

Translations

(abbreviation) wide area network

Greek: ΔΕΠ (DEP)
Khmer: បណ្ដាញតំបន់ទូលាយ (ban danh dom bon tu leay)
Portuguese: WAN f
Thai: แวน (th) (wɛɛn)

See also

Anagrams

NWA, awn, naw

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English WAN.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈwɐ̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈwan/

Noun

WAN f (plural WANs)

(networking) WAN (wide area network)

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