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* [[Future Air Navigation System]], or FAN, an air traffic control scheme |
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* [[Turbofan]], a type of jet engine |
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* [[Winnowing fan]], device for winnowing grain |
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Look up fan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Fan commonly refers to:
- Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often used for cooling.
- Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air.
- Fan (person), short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially with regard to entertainment or sports
Fan, FAN or fans may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
- "Fan" (song), by Pascal Michel Obispo
- Fans (album), a 1984 album by Malcolm McLaren
- "Fans" (song), a 2007 album track on Because of the Times by the Kings of Leon
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Fan (film), a 2016 Indian Hindi film
- Fan, a character in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Biology
- Free amino nitrogen, in brewing and winemaking, amino acids available for yeast metabolism
- Sea fan, a marine animal of the cnidarian phylum
Computing and mathematics
- Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line
- Fan (order), a class of preorderings on a field
- Fan triangulation, a fast method to decompose a convex polygon in triangles
- .fan filename extension for the Fantom (programming language)
- File area network, a method for file sharing over a network
- 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:
- Abyssal fan, underwater geological structures linked with large-scale sediment deposition.
- Alluvial fan
- Outwash plain
People
- Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common Chinese surname
- Fan Clan, a prominent clan with the above surname during the Spring and Autumn Period of China
- Fán (surname) (Chinese character: 樊, pinyin: Fán), a common Chinese surname
- Fan, the legendary descendant of the Yellow Emperor claimed as the progenitor of the Su clan in China
Places
- Fan (river), river in Albania
- Fan, Albania, municipality in Albania
- Fan County, in Henan, China
- Fan district, historic district in Richmond, Virginia
- Fanling station, Hong Kong; MTR station code FAN
Technology
The fan is a known object everywhere its really popular in hot areas such as pakistan and egypt
- Winnowing fan, device for winnowing grain
Weapons
- Japanese war fan, an object used in Japanese feudal warfare, also used in martial arts
- Korean fighting fan, an object used in Korean martial arts
Other uses
- Armed Forces of the North, a Chadian rebel army (French: Forces Armées du Nord)
- Fan (cards), to spread playing cards fanwise
- Fan (Daoism), 反 philosophical concept of "return; reverse; repeat"
- Fang language, ISO 639-2 code
- Nicaraguan Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Nicaragüense)
See also
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