WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN)

Meaning of WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) in English

A network of machines in a wide area, such as one or more metropolitan areas. Can consist of multiple Local Area Networks (LAN) .

Josh's Network English Glossary. Английский словарь Josh's Network. 2012

WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) — A physical or logical network that provides data communications to a larger number of independent users than are usually served …
Telecommunication Standard Terms English vocab
WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) — Private computer network used for inter-office communication. WANs typically interconnect remote offices of the same company. Compare with Local Area …
Internet PR English Glossary
NETWORK — I In broadcasting, a radio or television company that produces programs for broadcast to member stations. See ABC , CNN …
Английский словарь Британика
WIDE — I. ˈwīd adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English wid, wide, from Old English wīd; akin to Old High German …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WAN — I. ˈwän also ˈwȯn adjective ( wanner ; wannest ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wann, wan dark, gloomy, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NETWORK — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: net (I) + work 1. : a fabric or structure of threads, cords, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
AREA — ˈarēə, ˈer-, ˈaar-, ˈār- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Latin, piece of level ground, threshing floor, from arēre to be …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WIDE — (superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to …
Английский словарь Webster
WAN — (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
Английский словарь Webster
WAN — (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
Английский словарь Webster
WIDE — ( superl. ) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WAN — ( v. i. ) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WAN — ( n. ) The quality of being wan; wanness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WIDE — — wideness , n. /wuyd/ , adj., wider, widest , adv. , n. adj. 1. having considerable or great extent …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WAN — /wan/ , n. See wide-area network .
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WAN — wan 1 — wanly , adv. — wanness , n. /won/ , adj., wanner, wannest , v. , wanned, wanning …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NETWORK — — networker , n. /net"werrk'/ , n. 1. any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WIDE — I. ˈwīd adjective ( wider ; wid·est ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wīd; akin to Old High German …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WAN — I. ˈwän adjective ( wan·ner ; wan·nest ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wann dark, livid Date: 14th century …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NETWORK — I. ˈnet-ˌwərk noun Date: 1535 1. : a fabric or structure of cords or wires that cross at regular intervals …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WIDE — superl remote; distant; far. 2. wide ·noun that which is wide; wide space; width; extent. 3. wide ·noun that which …
Webster English vocab
WAN — of win. 2. wan ·impf won. 3. wan ·noun the quality of being wan; wanness. 4. wan ·vi to grow …
Webster English vocab
AREA — noun the inclosed space on which a building stands. 2. area ·noun extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of …
Webster English vocab
WIDE — [wide] adj wider ; wid.est [ME, fr. OE wid; akin to OHG wit wide] (bef. 12c) 1 a: having great …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WAN — [wan] adj wan.ner ; wan.nest [ME, fr. OE wann dark, livid] (14c) 1 a: suggestive of poor health: sickly, pallid …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NETWORK — [net.work] n (1560) 1: a fabric or structure of cords or wires that cross at regular intervals and are knotted …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WAN — WAN, wan 'wide area network' BrE AmE wæn
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WAN — wan 'pale' BrE AmE wɒn AmE wɑːn ▷ wanner ˈwɒn ə AmE ˈwɑːn ə r ▷ wannest ˈwɒn ɪst -əst …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WIDE — / waɪd; NAmE / adjective , adverb , noun ■ adjective ( wider , wid·est ) FROM ONE SIDE TO …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WAN — / wɒn; NAmE wɑːn/ adjective looking pale and weak : his grey, wan face She gave me a wan smile …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AREA — / ˈeəriə; NAmE ˈeriə/ noun PART OF PLACE 1. [ C ] part of a place, town, etc., or a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WIDE — I. wide 1 S1 W1 /waɪd/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: adverb : ↑ wide , ↑ widely ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WAN — wan /wɒn $ wɑːn/ BrE AmE adjective literary [ Language: Old English ; Origin: 'dark' ] looking pale, weak, or …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NETWORK — I. net ‧ work 1 S3 W2 AC /ˈnetwɜːk $ -wɜːrk/ BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . a system of …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
AREA — ar ‧ e ‧ a S1 W1 AC /ˈeəriə $ ˈeriə/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WIDE — adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 a measuring much or more than other things of the same kind across or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WIDE — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 a measuring much or more than other things of the same kind across or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WIDE — adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1. a measuring much or more than other things of the same kind across or …
Oxford English vocab
-WIDE — -wide combines with nouns to form adjectives which indicate that something exists or happens throughout the place or area that …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WIDE — ( wider, widest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Something that is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WAN — If you describe someone as wan , you mean that they look pale and tired. ( LITERARY ) He looked …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NETWORK — ( networks, networking, networked) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A network …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AREA — ( areas) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. An area is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WIDE — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a big/broad/wide smile (= when you are very happy ) ▪ She had a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WAN — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN smile ▪ Amanda turned, caught Jean's eye and smiled , a thin, wan smile. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AREA — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a border area/region ▪ The Afghan border area is open and wild. a broad area/field …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WIDE — [adverb] -r, -stThey moved the goal posts wider apart (= so that there was a larger distance between them).His eyes …
Cambridge English vocab
WAN — [adjective] wanner, wannest literary - (of a person's face) paler than usual and tired-lookingHe would remember the child's wan face …
Cambridge English vocab
WIDE — Synonyms and related words : aberrant, abroad, abstract, accented, adrift, advanced, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alveolar, amiss, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WAN — adj. Wan is used with these nouns: ↑ smile
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
NETWORK — I. noun 1 connections ADJECTIVE ▪ extensive , large , vast , wide , widespread ▪ an extensive ~ of …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
WIDE — INDEX: 1. a long distance from one side to another 2. how wide something is 3. to become wider 4. …
Longman Activator English vocab
AREA — INDEX: an area of the world, a country, a surface etc 1. an area of the world or a country …
Longman Activator English vocab
WIDE — n. 25B6; adjective a wide river : BROAD, extensive, spacious, vast, spread out. their mouths were wide with shock : …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
WAN — n. 25B6; adjective she looked so wan and frail : PALE, pallid, ashen, white, grey; anaemic, colourless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
WIDE — adj. 1 spacious, roomy, ample, extensive, broad The road is wide enough for two cars to pass If the book …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
WAN — adj. 1 white, sickly, pale, pallid, livid, pasty, ashen, bloodless, waxen, whey-faced, sallow, colourless, deathly, ghostly, ghastly, cadaverous I almost …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
WAN — acronym (Science and Technology) Short for wide area network, a computer network (see networkÜ) in which computers over a wide …
Английский разговорный словарь - Новые слова
WAN — See Wide Area Network (WAN) .
Josh's Network English Glossary
WAN — Stands for W ide A rea N etwork. Basically a linked Network of LANs . The Internet can be considered …
English Glossary of Internet and PC Terminology
WAN — WAN(Wide area Network ) Group of computers located geographically apart,usually belonging to a single company or organisation ,connected together using …
Internet Terms and Acronyms English vocab
WAN — Wide Area Network: This is a network which spans a large geographic area relative to office and campus environment of …
ATM Forum English vocabulary
WAN — Stands for "Wide Area Network." A WAN is similar to a Local Area Network (LAN), but it's a lot bigger. …
English Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms

Josh's Network English Glossary

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