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LAN

abbreviation for

LAN

/ lăn /

Short for local area network. A network that links together computers and peripheral equipment within a limited area, such as a building or a group of buildings. The computers in an LAN have independent central processing units, but they are able to exchange data with each other and to share resources such as printers.
See also client/server network

LAN

Acronym for l ocal a rea n etwork. This is a type of limited computer network that often exists within a company or organization, usually within a small geographical area.

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Inmates who were sentenced to death were called the living dead, with names like Dead Chang, Dead Lan, Dead Liu, and Dark Skin.

The state news agency, LAN, put the death toll on both sides at only 22 with hundreds injured.

"Yes, Uncle Lan," I assented, my mind divided between fear of him and eagerness to go.

Ole mars Jon had rudder de hoppergrasses wud kivver de hole lan, und de tarypin bugs too.

Fer de lan sake Hanner, run out here und kill dese heer snakes, und fetch my muskit along wid yu.

I beliebs dat when de good Lord sends trouble on dis here lan He's ergwine ter sen grace too.

If ol' Doc Bird's on the lan'scape, he hunts a hole an' he crawls in when Mr. Peth he begins to act up.

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