WAN Definition

WAN
abbreviation

1. computing.
Wide area network, a computer network that operates over a wide area and is therefore normally dependent on telephone lines or other long-distance links rather than cables. Compare LAN.
2. IVR.
(West Africa) Nigeria.

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wan
adj wanner, wannest

1. Pale and pinched-looking, especially from illness, exhaustion or grief.

Thesaurus: sickly, pale, drawn, colourless, ashen, waxen, pasty, anaemic, cadaverous, faint, weak.
2. Said of stars, etc: faint; dim.

Derivative: wanly
adverb

Derivative: wanness
noun

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wann dusky or lurid.