CAN

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Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

CAN

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Canada.
    Synonym: CA (alpha-2)

Etymology 2

Symbol

CAN

  1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, which serves Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

English

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Etymology 1

Abbreviation

Proper noun

CAN

  1. (computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network., ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.

Noun

CAN (countable and uncountable, plural CANs)

  1. (inorganic chemistry, uncountable) ceric ammonium nitrate
  2. (computing, manufacturing, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of controller area network.
  3. (computing, countable) Initialism of campus area network.
  4. (South Africa, countable) Acronym of community action network.
  5. Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tn(X1, X2, ..., Xn) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....
  6. (Australia, countable) Acronym of court attendance notice.

Etymology 2

From Spanish CAN.

Proper noun

CAN

  1. (initialism) The Andean Community of Nations.
Translations

Anagrams

Spanish

Proper noun

CAN ?

  1. Abbreviation of Comunidad Andina de Naciones.

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