MAN
Updated: 11/13/2018 by Computer Hope
MAN may refer to any of the following:
1. Short for Metropolitan Area Network, MAN is a network that is utilized across multiple buildings. A MAN is much larger than the standard LAN (Local Area Network), but is not as large as a WAN (Wide Area Network). A MAN is commonly used in school campuses and large companies with multiple buildings.
2. Short for Manual, man is a Unix and Linux command to display the manual of a command. For example, at the Linux prompt typing "man ls" would display the manual for the ls command.
Computer acronyms, HAN, LAN, MAE, Network terms, TLA, WAN, WiMAX