WAN
See also: wan, wán, wàn, wān, wǎn, wan-, -wan, and 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
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See also
- Internet
- LAN
- network
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)