nat

Nat

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Definitions of nat word

abbreviation Technical meaning of NAT Network Address Translation 3
noun nat Nathan ("Nat") 1896–1995, U.S. basketball player and coach. 1
noun nat A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism. 1
noun Definition of nat in Technology (networking) (NAT, or Network Address Translator, Virtual LAN) A technique in which a router or firewall rewrites the source and/or destination Internet addresses in a packet as it passes through, typically to allow multiple hosts to connect to the Internet via a single external IP address. NAT keeps track of outbound connections and distributes incoming packets to the correct machine. NAT is an alternative to adopting IPv6 (IPng). It allows the same IP addresses (10.x.x.x is the conventional range) to be used on many private local networks while requiring only one of the increasingly scarce public addresses to be allocated to each private network. NAT does not however allow an external service to initiate a TCP connection to an internal host, nor does it support stateless protocols based on UDP well unless the router software has extensions to support each specific protocol. 1
noun nat a member or supporter of the Scottish National Party 0
noun nat a member of the National Party 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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