SAN
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San or SAN may refer to:
- Senior Advocate of Nigeria, rank that may be conferred on legal practitioners in Nigeria
- Sinoatrial node, pacemaking tissue in the right atrium of the heart
Places
- San, Mali
- San, Burkina Faso, a town in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso
- San, Wiang Sa, a subdistrict of Wiang Sa District, Nan, Thailand
- San (river), a river in south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine, (the Celtic word (san) means river)
- San Diego International Airport, IATA airport code SAN
- Sydney Adventist Hospital in Australia, due to the original name "Sydney Sanitarium"
- Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, U.S., nicknamed The San by its guests
People
- The indigenous San people of southern Africa, also referred to as Bushmen
- Sandra Priest, also known as San the Artist, American muralist and sculptor
Arts
- San (band), Yugoslav rock band
- San (album) by Japanese band High and Mighty Color
- San (comics), a character of the Marvel Universe
- San, the original name of Princess Mononoke in the same-titled 1997 animated film
- The Dream (film), originally known as San, a 1966 Yugoslav film
- Umbrella (film), a 2007 Chinese documentary also called San
Technology
Computing
- Storage area network, an architecture to remotely attach computer storage. SAN devices connect to a number of servers using fibre channel. Most SAN systems use the small computer system interface protocol. An add-on card must be installed in each computer that will be connected to a SAN device. A SAN is seen by a connected server as a local drive. Since the SAN serves data only as raw disk blocks, the server itself must provide file management.
- System area network, high-performance, connection-oriented network that can link a cluster of computers
- Subject Alternative Name, an X.509 certificate extension that allows certain values to be attached to a certificate, such as host names (as alternates to the Common Name), URIs and e-mail addresses.
Chemistry
- Styrene-acrylonitrile resin, copolymer plastic consisting of styrene and acrylonitrile
Transport
- Sandersville Railroad's reporting mark, a railroad in Georgia, United States
- Société Aeronautique Normande, defunct French aircraft manufacturer
- SAN Ecuador (Servicios Aéreos Nacionales), defunct airline
Organizations
- South African Navy, the navy of South Africa
- Stigma Action Network, an international network focused on HIV stigma and discrimination reduction
Languages
- San (letter), Greek letter between Pi and Qoppa
- -san San (Japanese honorific) used after a person's name, the equivalent of Mr., Mrs. or Miss
- san (山/さん), a Japanese word for "mountain", as in Fuji-san, an alternative name for Mount Fuji (unrelated to the honorific)
- san (Hangul: 산; hanja: 山), a Korean noun for mountain, as in Jirisan
- Italian and Spanish masculine word for saint, in geographical names, as in San Francisco
- Chinese word for "Three"
Games
- Algebraic notation (chess), also called short (or standard) algebraic notation
See also
- All pages beginning with "San"
- Sans (disambiguation)