WAN

WAN

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Nigeria.

   Synonym: NGA (for general use)

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.

• IPA^(key): /wæn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

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.

• LAN

• LPWAN

• Internet
• LAN
• network

• NWA, awn, naw

Unadapted borrowing from English WAN.

WAN f (plural WANs)

1. (networking) WAN (wide area network)