wide area network

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   a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network

   SynonymsWAN

   Broadercomputer network

Questions about wide area network

What does wide area network mean?

wide area network means "a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network".

What is another word for wide area network?

Close synonyms include WAN. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wide area network a common word?

wide area network is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.