Dictionary definition · BAN
noun
- a bachelor's degree in nursing
- a decree that prohibits something
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
- an official prohibition or edict against something
- a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10."The ban pre-dates Shannon's use of bit as a unit of information by at least eight years, and remains in use in the early 21st Century."
verb
- forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
- prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure"Smoking is banned in this building"
- ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
- expel from a community or group
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).