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CAN en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Abbreviation

Meanings

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

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Source: en.wiktionary, “CAN” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

CAN en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish CAN.

Meanings

  1. (initialism) The Andean Community of Nations.

Translations (1)

es CAN (Andean Community)