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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. your grandmother;

2. the mother of your father or mother;
[syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]

3. a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya;
[syn: Nan, Nan River]

4. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop;
[syn: nan, naan]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Nan \Nan\, interj. [For anan.] Anan. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

nan n 1: your grandmother 2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna] 3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River] 4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Not-a-Number NaN (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero. Bit patterns (http://psc.edu/general/software/packages/ieee/ieee.html). [ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985]. [Correct?] (2001-04-01)