| VAN | a truck with an enclosed cargo space |
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| VAN | (British) a camper equipped with living quarters |
| VAN | the leading units moving at the head of an army |
| VAN | artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time |
| VAN | United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914) |
| VAN | a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field |
| VAN | German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music) |
| VAN | a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults |
| VAN | 8th President of the United States (1782-1862) |
| VAN | electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity |
| VAN | Belgian architect (1863-1957) |
| VAN | relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles |