Can

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Can may refer to:

Container

• Aluminum can
• Tin can, a rigid steel or tinplate container for storing food and other predominantly liquid products, also known as a steel can or tin
• Drink can, a can designed to hold a single serving of a beverage
• Oil can, a can that holds oil for lubricating machines or for an oil lamp
• Trash can, a big can that holds trash
• Canning, a process of preserving food

Technology

• Controller area network, a vehicle bus standard for data communication
• Campus area network, a computer network made up of an interconnection of local area networks (LANs) within a limited geographical area
• Content addressable network, a distributed, decentralized P2P infrastructure

Music

• Can (band), an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968, originally called The Can
• Can (South Korean band), a South Korean band
• Can (album), a 1979 krautrock album

People

• Tomato can (sports idiom), or simply "tomato" or "can" is an idiom for a fighter with poor or diminished skills

Places

• River Can, a river in Essex, United Kingdom
• Canada (Can.), an informal abbreviation for the country

Other uses

• Can (verb), an English modal auxiliary verb
• Cans, ISO 15924 code for Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
• Childhood acute neuropsychiatric symptoms
• Slang for toilet
• Slang for buttocks
• "Cans", slang for headphones

See also

• All pages beginning with Can
• All pages with a title containing Can
• Cannes, France
• CAN (disambiguation)
• Cahn (disambiguation)
• Cane (disambiguation)
• Kan (disambiguation)