Fanning may refer to:
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Fanning (bees)
The Nasonov (alternatively, Nasanov) pheromone is released by worker bees to orient returning forager bees back to the colony. To broadcast this scent, bees raise their abdomens, which contain the Nasonov glands, and fan their wings vigorousl ...
, a behaviour of worker bees signalling an entrance to a hive
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Fanning (firearms)
Fanning is a revolver shooting technique in which the shooter uses one hand to hold the gun and pull the trigger, while using the other hand to cock back the hammer repeatedly in a slapping-like fashion without touching any other parts of the gu ...
, a shooting technique in which one hand holds a revolver and the other hits the hammer repeatedly
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Fanning (surname)
Fanning is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bede Fanning (1885–1970), Australian public servant
* Bernard Fanning (born 1969), Australian musician, best known for his role as the lead singer of the Australia ...
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Fanning friction factor
The Fanning friction factor, named after John Thomas Fanning, is a dimensionless number used as a local parameter in continuum mechanics calculations. It is defined as the ratio between the local shear stress and the local flow kinetic energy d ...
, a dimensionless number used in fluid flow calculations
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Fan dance
In the West, a fan dance (i.e., a dance performed with fans) may be an erotic dance performance, traditionally by a woman, but not exclusively. Beyond eroticism it is a form of musical interpretation. The performer, sometimes entirely nude o ...
, a dance art form
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USS ''Fanning'', ships of the United States Navy
Places
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Cape Fanning Cape Fanning () is a cape that forms the north side of the entrance to Violante Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service in a flight from East Base on December 30, 1940, and was ...
, Antarctica
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Fanning Ridge
Fanning Ridge () is a prominent rock ridge, long, paralleling the south coast of South Georgia between Aspasia Point and the west side of Newark Bay. The ridge was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, following its mapping by the So ...
, South Georgia Island
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Fanning, Kansas
Fanning is an unincorporated community in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States. Fanning is located along K-7 northwest of Troy.
History
Fanning had its start in the year 1870 by the building of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad
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, United States
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Fanning, Missouri
Fanning is an unincorporated community in western Crawford County, Missouri, United States. It lies along former U.S. Route 66, now Missouri Supplemental Route ZZ, four miles southwest of Cuba. Fanning is also home to the world's second largest ...
, United States
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Tabuaeran
Tabuaeran, also known as Fanning Island, is an atoll that is part of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean and part of Kiribati. The land area is , and the population in 2015 was 2,315. The maximum elevation is about 3 m (10 f ...
, also known as Fanning Atoll or Fanning Island, one of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean
See also
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Fan (disambiguation)
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