San

San or SAN can refer to any of the following:

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• In biology, SAN stands for the sinoatrial node of the heart.
• San or santo is the Spanish word for saint, as used in San Francisco (honouring Saint Francis) and San Diego (honouring Saint Didacus). San is used as a title only, whereas santo is used as a noun (e.g. «él es un santo», meaning "he is a saint") or a title (as in Santo Domingo).
• San is the Nama name, meaning "outsider," given to the Bushmen living in Southern Africa. It is generally considered offensive.
• San was a letter of the Greek alphabet.
• In computing, SAN is an initialism for storage area network.
• San is the fictional girl raised by a wolf goddess in Miyazaki Hayao's animated movie Princess Mononoke - the movie's title is a name by which she is also known.
• San is also a river in Southern Poland. In some indoeuropean languages, san means speed, fast.
• San (さん) in Japanese is
  • an honorific suffix, akin to Mr. and Ms. in meaning, which does not come from Chinese. See also: Japanese titles
  • a suffix meaning a mountain, as in Fuji-san, which came from Chinese. See also: Category:Mountains of Japan
  • the number three, which came from Chinese. See also: Japanese numerals
• San is a town in Mali.
• San is one of the Fat Slags in the comic Viz.
• In some Slavic languages such as Serbian, san means dream.

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