Wan

Take two local area networks(LANs), hook them together, and you've got a WAN. The largest WAN is the Internet.

a network that ties together large geographic regions using microwave and satelite transmition or telephone lines.

from Principles of Information Systems, by Ralph M. Stair and George Reynolds. Fourth Edition.

Wan (?), obs. imp. of Win.

Won.

Chaucer.

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Wan (), a. [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See Win.]

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.

Spenser.

My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Suckling.

With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

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Wan, n.

The quality of being wan; wanness.

Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson.

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Wan (?), v. i.

To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.

Shak.

And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. Tennyson.

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