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Network address translation

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A routing technology used by many firewalls to hide internal system addresses from an external network through use of an addressing schema.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Network0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
NAT
plural
Network address translations
possessive
Network address translation's
pluralpossessive
Network address translations'