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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 for cooling
• Fan (person), short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially with regard to entertainment

Fan, FAN or fans may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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 algorithm, an algorithm for automatic test pattern generation
• 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
• Fan, a type of polyhedral complex

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

• Future Air Navigation System, or FAN, an air traffic control scheme
• Turbofan, a type of jet engine
• 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

Search for "fan" on Wikipedia.

• The Fan (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Fan
• All pages with titles containing Fan
• Fandom (disambiguation)
• Fanfan (disambiguation)
• Fanning (disambiguation)