SAN

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)
• IATA airport code SAN: San Diego International Airport, California
• 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 people of southern Africa, also referred to as Bushmen, Sho, Basarwa, Kung, or Khwe
• 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 a Japanese word for "mountain", as in Fuji-san, an alternative name for Mount Fuji (unrelated to the honorific)
• Italian and Spanish masculine word for saint, in geographical names, as in San Francisco
• Korean noun for mountain

Games

• Algebraic notation (chess), also called short algebraic notation

See also

• All pages beginning with "San"
• Sans (disambiguation)