Fan
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Fan or FAN may refer to:
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Technology [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- Fan (person), a fanatical enthusiast or supporter, especially 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
- Fan Club (TV series), a Quebec television series broadcast on the VRAK.TV specialty channel
- La Belle Lucie, a solitaire card game also known as The Fan
- L'École des fans, a French TV show
- Fan, an opponent in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
- Fan, an ident for BBC Choice, used from 1998 to 2003
Computing [edit]
- 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 [edit]
One of several types of fan-shaped deposits of sediment caused by the flow of streams or glacial melt:
Places [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- Sea fan, a marine animal of the Cnidarian phylum
- Free Amino Nitrogen, in brewing and winemaking, amino acids available for yeast metabolism
- Yeast assimilable nitrogen, or YAN, a term in winemaking that is often used interchangeably with FAN
Other uses [edit]
- Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line
- Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common Chinese surname
- Fan, the legendary descendant of the Yellow Emperor claimed as the progenitor of the Su clan in China
- Japanese war fan, an object used in Japanese feudal warfare, also used in martial arts
- Fang language (ISO 639-2 code)
See also [edit]
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