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ELAN
(Emulated LAN) A virtual LAN in the ATM world. See LANE and virtual LAN.
Elan - ["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis Horwood 1987].

Elan’ 

an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of Elan’ Raion, Volgograd Oblast, RSFSR. Located at the confluence of the Elan’ and Tersa rivers (Don basin). Elan’ is a railroad station (Elan’-Kamyshinskaia) on the Balashov-Kamyshin line. Population, 15,000 (1970).

Elan’ is the site of a butter and cheese plant, a meat and poultry combine, a repair plant, a brickyard, an asphalt factory, mills, and an incubator poultry breeding station. There is a people’s amateur drama theater in the town.


Elan’ 

(in its upper reaches, Bol’shaia Elan’), a river in Voronezh Oblast of the RSFSR; a right tributary of the Savala River (Don basin). Length, 165 km; basin area, 3,630 sq km. Its sources are in the Oka-Don Plain; it flows along the plain’s southern border. It is fed largely by melted snow. The average annual discharge 26 km from the mouth is 6.8 cu m per sec.



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After struggling in cool and wet conditions in Friday's two practice sessions, the 23-year-old Englishman drove his McLaren Mercedes with élan.
After struggling in cool and wet conditions in Friday's two practice sessions, the 23-year-old Englishman drove his McLaren Mercedes with élan.
He also found time to give help and encouragement to many of us still slogging through the mire he traversed with such ease and élan.
 
 
 
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