WAN

See also: 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/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

WAN (plural WANs)

2. (networking) Acronym of wide area network.

   Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.

Translations

(abbreviation) wide area network

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

See also

• Internet
• LAN
• network

Anagrams

• NWA, awn, naw

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English WAN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwan/, [ˈwan]
• Homophones: wan, -wan

Noun

WAN (plural WAN-WAN)

1. (computing, networking) WAN, acronym of English wide area network.

Further reading

• “WAN”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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)