WAN

See also: wan, wán, wàn, wān, wǎn, wan-, -wan, and Appendix:Variations of "wan"

Translingual

Symbol

WAN

1. (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)

1. (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

• 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)

1. (networking) WAN (wide area network)