VPN

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

VPN (plural VPNs)

  1. (computing) Initialism of virtual private network.
    • 2002 April 8, Irwin Lazar, “Variations on a VPN theme”, in Network World, page 45:
      The disadvantages to roll-your-own are that the company is responsible for managing VPN configurations, and because traffic is transversing the Internet, there are no performance guarantees. Moreover, it typically is difficult to support latency-sensitive traffic, such as voice. However, a roll-your-own approach lets corporations establish a VPN to any site that has access to the Internet.
    • 2018 June 25, Lily Kuo, “China blocks HBO after John Oliver parody of Xi Jinping”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2026:
      Most Chinese users watch HBO through virtual private networks, or VPNs.
    • 2022, Jon M. Garon, Parenting for the Digital Generation, page 175:
      To avoid detection, most torrenters will use a VPN to ensure that the torrenter's Internet address is hidden and the data stream is encrypted. The use of the VPN will help protect a torrenter from the ISP's knowledge of the unauthorized downloads, but it will not protect from malware being installed during the networking sessions.
    • 2025 April 17, “Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) and EVPN Integration Overview”, in Juniper Networks‎[2], archived from the original on 1 July 2025:
      When operating on customer MAC (C-MAC) and service MAC (S-MAC) addresses, PBB uses a new backbone MAC (B-MAC) address. The B-MAC address is added at the edge of the PBB network, that is administered by a carrier VPN or a carrier-of-carriers VPN.
  2. (computing) Initialism of virtual page number.

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Proper noun

VPN

  1. (military, nautical) Initialism of Vietnam People's Navy.
    Synonym: HQNDVN
    Coordinate term: HQVNCH
    Coordinate term: RVNN

Anagrams

Japanese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English VPN.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɯ̟ipʲiːe̞nɯ̟]

Noun

VPN(ブイピーエヌ) • (bui-pī-enu) 

  1. (computing) virtual private network

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Portuguese

Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English VPN.

    Pronunciation

    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌveˌpeˈẽ.ni/
     

    Noun

    VPN m or f (plural VPNs)

    1. (computing) VPN (“virtual private network”)

    Usage notes

    • The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.
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