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Fan (machine) A fan is a powered machine used to create a flow of air. A fan consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades, generally made of wood, plastic, or metal, which act on the air. The rotating assembly of blades and hub is known as an ''imp ...

, a machine for producing airflow, often used for cooling **

Hand fan A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is any broad, flat surface that is waved back-and-forth to create an airflow. Generally, purpose-made handheld fans are folding fans, which are shaped like a sector of a circle and made of a thin material (suc ...

, an implement held and waved by hand to move air for cooling *

Fan (person) A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a vid ...

, short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially with regard to entertainment 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 () is an arcade fighting game developed by Konami. It first had a limited Japanese release in October 1984, before having a wide release nationwide in January 1985 and then internationally in March 1985. Along with ''Karate Champ'' (1984), which ...

Biology

* Free amino nitrogen, in brewing and winemaking, amino acids available for yeast metabolism *

Sea fan Alcyonacea, or soft corals, are an order of corals. In addition to the fleshy soft corals, the order Alcyonacea now contains all species previously known as "gorgonian corals", that produce a more or less hard skeleton, though quite different f ...

, a marine animal of the cnidarian phylum

Computing and mathematics

* Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line *

Fan (order) In mathematics, an ordered field is a field together with a total ordering of its elements that is compatible with the field operations. The basic example of an ordered field is the field of real numbers, and every Dedekind-complete ordered field ...

, a class of preorderings on a field *

FAN algorithm FAN algorithm is an algorithm for automatic test pattern generation (ATPG). It was invented in 1983 by Hideo Fujiwara and Shimono Takeshi at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University, Japan. It was the fastest ATPG algorithm at tha ...

, an algorithm for automatic test pattern generation *

Fan triangulation In computational geometry, a fan triangulation is a simple way to triangulate a polygon by choosing a vertex and drawing edges to all of the other vertices of the polygon. Not every polygon can be triangulated this way, so this method is usua ...

, a fast method to decompose a convex polygon in triangles * .fan filename extension for the

Fantom (programming language) Fantom is a general purpose object-oriented programming language created by Brian and Andy Frank that runs on the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), JavaScript, and the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) (.NET support is considered "prototype" ...

File area network In computing, file virtualization is a field of storage virtualization operating on computer file level. It involves uniting multiple storage devices into a single logical pool of file. It is a vital part of both file area network (FAN) and network ...

, a method for file sharing over a network *

Triangle fan frame, Set of connected triangles described by vertices A through F. A triangle fan is a primitive in 3D computer graphics that saves on storage and processing time. It describes a set of connected triangles that share one central vertex (unlik ...

, 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 Abyssal fans, also known as deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater geological structures associated with large-scale sediment deposition and formed by turbidity currents. They can be thought of as an underwater ve ...

, underwater geological structures linked with large-scale sediment deposition. *

Alluvial fan An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to semiarid climates, but a ...

Outwash plain An outwash plain, also called a sandur (plural: ''sandurs''), sandr or sandar, is a plain formed of glaciofluvial deposits due to meltwater outwash at the terminus of a glacier. As it flows, the glacier grinds the underlying rock surface and c ...

People

Fan (surname) Fàn () is a Chinese family name. It is also one of the most common surnames in Vietnam, where it is written as Pham (范 - Phạm), and occurs in Korea as Beom (范, 범). It is the 46th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem in Chinese. F ...

(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) The Fan is a river in northern Albania. It is formed by the confluence of two source rivers: the Great Fan ( sq, Fan i Madh) and the Little Fan ( sq, Fan i Vogël), that join a few kilometers west of the town Rrëshen. The Great Fan rises near t ...

, river in Albania * Fan, Albania, municipality in Albania *

Fan County Fan County or Fanxian () falls under the jurisdiction of Puyang, in the northeast of Henan province, China. The Northern Expedition of the Taiping Rebellion attempt to cross the Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , S ...

, 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 The turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft engine, aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a portmanteau of "turbine" and "fan": the ''turbo'' portion refers to a gas turbine engine which ac ...

, a type of jet engine * Winnowing fan, device for winnowing grain

Weapons

Japanese war fan The Japanese war fan, or ''tessen'' ( ja, 鉄扇,てっせん, tessen, translation="iron fan"), is a weaponized Japanese hand fan designed for use in warfare. Several types of war fans were used by the samurai class of feudal Japan and each had ...

, an object used in Japanese feudal warfare, also used in martial arts *

Korean fighting fan The Korean war fan (mubuchae; Hangul: 무부채) was a Korean martial arts weapon that originated in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. Swords and similar weapons were banned from most people during this time which created a desire for weapons that coul ...

, an object used in Korean martial arts

Other uses

Armed Forces of the North The Armed Forces of the North (''Forces Armées du Nord'' or FAN) was a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War. Composed of FROLINAT units that remained loyal to Hissène Habré following his break from Goukouni Oueddei and the ...

, a Chadian rebel army (French: ''Forces Armées du Nord'') *

Fan (cards) The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge, Hearts, Poker or Rummy) ...

, to spread playing cards fanwise *

Fan (Daoism) The ancient Chinese term (, "return; reversion; inversion") is a basic concept of Daoism. The ''Daodejing'' says "Reversal is the movement of the Way ... Being is born from nonbeing." Daoist texts use ''fan'' in three interconnected meanings: ...

, 反 philosophical concept of "return; reverse; repeat" *

Fang language Fang is a Central African language spoken by around 1 million people, most of them in Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon, where it is the dominant Bantu language; Fang is also spoken in southern Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, and small ...

, ISO 639-2 code *

Nicaraguan Air Force The Nicaraguan Air Force ( es, Fuerza Aérea Nicaragüense) is the air defense branch of the armed forces of Nicaragua. It continues the former Sandinista air units. Before 1979 the Nicaraguan National Guard had some air units (). Air force In 19 ...

(Spanish: ''Fuerza Aérea Nicaragüense'')