CAN
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Organizations

  • Andean Community of Nations
    Andean Community of Nations
    The Andean Community is a customs union comprising the South American countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The trade bloc was called the Andean Pact until 1996 and came into existence with the signing of the Cartagena Agreement in 1969...

    , a South American trade bloc with Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
  • Campus Antiwar Network
    Campus Antiwar Network
    Campus Antiwar Network is an American independent grassroots network of students opposing the occupation of Iraq and military recruiters in US schools...

    , an American network of students opposing the occupation of Iraq
  • Chechnya Advocacy Network
    Chechnya Advocacy Network
    Chechnya Advocacy Network is a United States-based non-government organization that conducts research, awareness, and advocacy on Chechnya and the Chechen people. It is the largest Chechnya-specific organization in North America. Its headquarters is located in New York City, with branch offices in...

    , an American non-government organization for Chechnya advocacy
  • Christian Association of Nigeria
    Christian Association of Nigeria
    The Christian Association of Nigeria is an umbrella organization containing numerous Christian denominations in Nigeria.-Leadership:Ayo Oritsejafor, Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church,is the President and Archbishop Daniel Okoh, President of the Organisation of African Instituted Churches,...

    , an umbrella organization containing numerous Christian denominations in Nigeria
  • Climate Action Network
    Climate Action Network
    Climate Action Network is an umbrella group of environmental non-governmental organisations active on the issue of climate change...

    , an international non-governmental network to limit human-induced climate change
  • Corporate Angel Network
    Corporate Angel Network
    The Corporate Angel Network is an American non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to arrange free air travel for cancer patients to treatment centers by using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine business. They are based in White Plains, NY, and operate from an...

    , an American non-profit organization that arranges free air travel for cancer patients
  • Cricket Association of Nepal
    Cricket Association of Nepal
    Cricket Association of Nepal is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Nepal. Its current headquarters is in Kathmandu, Nepal. Cricket Association of Nepal is Nepal's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an associate member and has been a member of that body...

    , governing body of Nepali cricket
  • Cult Awareness Network
    Cult Awareness Network
    The Cult Awareness Network was founded in the wake of the November 18, 1978 deaths of members of the group Peoples Temple and assassination of Congressman Leo J. Ryan in Jonestown, Guyana. CAN is now owned and operated by associates of the Church of Scientology, an organization that the original...

    , an American organization operated by the Church of Scientology
  • Cure Autism Now, a former American organization for autism advocacy
  • Cycling Advocates' Network
    Cycling Advocates' Network
    Cycling Advocates' Network is a national cycling advocacy group founded in November 1996 in Wellington, New Zealand. It aims to achieve a better cycling environment for cycling as transport and tourism...

    , a New Zealand cycling advocacy group

Science and medicine

  • CAN (gene), a human gene
  • Calcium ammonium nitrate
    Calcium ammonium nitrate
    Calcium ammonium nitrate, often abbreviated CAN, is a fertilizer which is a blend of about 20%-30% CaCO3 and 70%-80% Ammonium nitrate. It is used as a general plant fertilizer. It is an example for nitrogenous fertiliser.-References:Ammonium nitrate...

    , a fertilizer
  • Ceric ammonium nitrate, an inorganic compound

Computing

  • Campus area network
    Campus area network
    A campus network, campus area network, corporate area network or CAN is a computer network made up of an interconnection of local area networks within a limited geographical area...

     or corporate area network, a computer network in a limited geographical area
  • Cancel character
    Cancel character
    In telecommunication, the term cancel character has the following meanings:#A control character used to indicate that the data with which it is associated are in error or are to be disregarded....

    , a precision control character in the C0 control code set
  • Content addressable network
    Content addressable network
    The Content Addressable Network is a distributed, decentralized P2P infrastructure that provides hash table functionality on an Internet-like scale...

    , type of P2P network
  • Controller area network
    Controller Area Network
    Controller–area network is a vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host computer....

    , a type of microcontroller bus

Other

  • Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     (ISO country code), a country in North America
  • Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
    Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
    Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is the main airport of Guangzhou, the capital of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Both airport codes were inherited from the previous Guangzhou airport, and the IATA code reflects Guangzhou's former romanization Canton...

    (IATA airport code), the main airport in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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