Fan

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Fan commonly refers to:

Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often 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 or fans may also refer to:

Contents

1 Arts, entertainment, and media

1.1 Music

1.2 Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

2 Biology

3 Computing and mathematics

4 Geology

5 People

6 Places

7 Technology

8 Weapons

9 Other uses

10 See also
Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

"Fan" (song), by Pascal 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

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

Fang language, ISO 639-2 code

Forces Armées du Nord (Armed Forces of the North), a Chadian rebel army

See also

Fandom (disambiguation)

Fanfan (disambiguation)

Fanning (disambiguation)

The Fan (disambiguation)