CAN

CAN

See also: Appendix:Variations of "can"

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

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

Etymology tree
Spanish CANbor.
English CAN

    Borrowed 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

    Descendants

    • English: CAN
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