MAN

1. Short for Metropolitan-Area Network, MAN is a network that is utilized across multiple buildings. A MAN is much larger than the standard Local-Area Network (LAN) but is not as large as a Wide Area Network (WAN) and commonly is used in school campuses and large companies with multiple buildings. 
2. Short for Manual, man is a Unix / Linux command to display the manual of a command. Additional information about this command can be found on our Unix / Linux man page.

Also see: LAN, MAE, Network definitions, WAN, WiMAX