Tan or TAN may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Black and Tans Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have ...

, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ...

or British people in general, especially disparagingly. * TAN Books, a Catholic publishing company *

FC Rubin-TAN Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (russian: Футбо́льный клуб Руби́н Каза́нь, ''Futbolny klub Rubin Kazan'' , Tatar: Рубин Казан) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the second-tier ...

, a Russian professional ice hockey club in Kazan in 1991-94 * Transportes Aereos Nacionales, an airline based in Honduras known as

TAN Airlines Tan or TAN may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, es ...

People

* Tan (surname) (譚), a Chinese surname *

Chen (surname) Chen () () is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and ...

(陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages *

Laozi Laozi (), also known by numerous other names, was a semilegendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher. Laozi ( zh, ) is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as "the Old Master". Traditional accounts say he was born as in the state ...

, posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China * Leborgne, nicknamed Tan, a patient of Paul Broca's, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area * TAN (musician) (born 1990), Malaysian pop singer * Tan Sağtürk (born 1969), Turkish ballet

Places

China

Tan (state) Tan (; 1046–684 BCE) was an ancient state located in present-day Shandong Province, China. It is the first state reported to be "extinguished" during the Spring and Autumn period. Foundation In 1046 BCE, Zhou, the last king of the Shang Dynast ...

, an ancient viscountcy in eastern Shandong Province, China * Tai'an railway station (Shandong), China Railway pinyin code TAN

Vietnam

* Tân An, Bắc Giang Province, a northeastern commune and village * Tân An, Long An Province, the capital city of Long An Province, Mekong Delta * Tân An Province, a former province of South Vietnam

Elsewhere

* Tan Track, also known as "The Tan", a running track in

Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanic gardens across two sites–Melbourne and Cranbourne. Melbourne Gardens was founded in 1846 when land was reserved on the south side of the Yarra River for a new botanic garden. It extends across ...

, Australia *

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

(IOC and FIFA trigram: TAN), a country *

Taunton Municipal Airport Taunton Municipal Airport , also known as King Field, is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Taunton, a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It is located in the ''East Taunton' ...

(IATA airport code: TAN), in Taunton, Massachusetts, US

Science and technology

Tan (color) Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum ( oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. The first recorded use of ''tan'' as a color name in English was in the year 1590. Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymo ...

, a pale shade of brown *

Tanning (leather) Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Tanning hide into leather involves a process which permanently alters the protein structure of skin, maki ...

, the process of making leather from hides * Tangent (tan), one of the

trigonometric functions In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in a ...

Ti-6Al-7Nb Ti-6Al-7Nb (UNS designation R56700) is an alpha-beta titanium alloy first synthesized in 1977 containing 6% aluminum and 7% niobium. It features high strength and has similar properties as the cytotoxic vanadium containing alloy Ti-6Al-4V. Ti-6Al-7N ...

, a titanium alloy containing aluminum and niobium * Total acid number, or TAN, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity * Transaction authentication number or TAN, in electronic banking

Biology

* Tan (goat pattern), a goat color pattern *

Tanbark Tanbark is the bark of certain species of trees, traditionally used for tanning hides into leather. The words "tannin", " tanning", " tan," and " tawny" are derived from the Medieval Latin ''tannare'', "to convert into leather." Bark mills a ...

, or tan, the bark of certain species of tree *

Sun tanning Sun tanning or tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found in indoor tanning be ...

, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light **

Sunless tanning Sunless tanning, also known as UV filled tanning, self tanning, spray tanning (when applied topically), or fake tanning, refers to the effect of a suntan without exposure to the Sun. Sunless tanning involves the use of oral agents (carotenids) ...

, the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light *

Tropical ataxic neuropathy Tropical ataxic neuropathy (TAN, also known as Strachan-Scott Syndrome and prisoners of war neuropathy) is a disease or category of diseases that commonly causes disability and increases mortality. The causes of TAN are not understood; there is no ...

Other uses

-tan The Japanese language makes use of a honorific speech in Japanese, system of honorific speech, called , which includes honorifics (linguistics), honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gend ...

, a Japanese honorific * ''Tan'', an album by the Polish rock band Kult *

TAN (group) TAN (; formerly ; acronym for To All Nations) is a South Korean boy group formed through the MBC survival competition show ''Extreme Debut: Wild Idol''. The group is composed of seven members: Changsun, Taehoon, Jiseong, Sunghyuk, Jaejun, Hyuny ...

, South Korean boy band * ''Tan'' (newspaper), a newspaper in Turkey * ''Tan'' (weekly newspaper), a newspaper in Kosovo *

Irish War of Independence The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...

, sometimes called the "Black and Tan war" or "Tan war" * Tahn (Armenian ''tʻan''), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East *

Tanfana In Germanic paganism, Tamfana is a goddess. The destruction of a temple dedicated to the goddess is recorded by Roman senator Tacitus to have occurred during a massacre of the Germanic Marsi (Germanic), Marsi by forces led by Roman general Germanicu ...

, or Tan, an ancient European goddess *

Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number In India, a Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number (TAN) is a 10 digit alpha-numeric number issued by the Income Tax Department to the persons who are required to deduct or collect tax on payments made by them under the Indian Income Tax Act, ...

(TAN), an Indian tax code