Fan

Fan or FAN may refer to:

Technology

• Mechanical fan, a machine for producing airflow, often for cooling
  • Computer fan (or CPU Fan), a machine for cooling off the electronics contained within a computer
• Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air
• Future Air Navigation System (or FANS), an air traffic control scheme also known as CNS/ATM

Entertainment

• Fan (person), a fanatical enthusiast or supporter, expecially with regard to entertainment and sports
• A person involved in science fiction fandom
• "Fan" (song), by Pascal Obispo
• "Fans" (song),a 2007 album track on Because of the Times by the Kings of Leon
• Fans (album), a 1984 album by Malcolm McLaren
• La Belle Lucie, a solitaire card game also known as The Fan
• Fan, an opponent in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
• Fan, an ident for BBC Choice, used from 1998 to 2003

Computing

• File area network, method for file sharing over a network
• Fantom (programming language)
• Triangle fan, a data structure to describe polygons in computer graphics

Geology

One of several types of fan-shaped deposits of sediment caused by the flow of streams or glacial melt:

• Outwash fan
• Alluvial fan
• Sandur

Places

• Fan, Albania, municipality in Albania
• Fan (river), river in Albania
• Fan County, in Henan, China
• Fan district, historic district in Richmond, Virginia
• Fanling Station, Hong Kong; MTR station code FAN

Biology

• Sea fan, a marine animal of the Cnidarian phylum
• Free Amino Nitrogen, in brewing, amino acids available for yeast metabolism

Other uses

• Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line
• Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common Chinese surname
• Fluoride Action Network, a group that campaigns against fluoridation
• Japanese war fan, an object used in Japanese feudal warfare, also used in martial arts
• The ISO 639-2 code of the Fang language

See also

• The Fan (disambiguation)