Fan commonly refers to: *

Fan (machine) A fan is a powered machine that creates airflow. A fan consists of rotating 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 ''impeller'', ''Rotor (electric) ...

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

Hand fan A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is a 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 Circular sector, sector of a circle and made of a thi ...

, 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 video ...

, 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" (Pascal Obispo song), 2003 * Fan (Offset song), 2023 * ''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'' (2007 film), a Uruguayan drama film * ''Fan'' (2016 film), an Indian Hindi film * Fan, a character in the video game ''

Yie Ar Kung-Fu () is an arcade fighting game developed and published 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. Along with '' Karate Champ'' (1 ...

'' * Fan, a character in the novella ''

A Christmas Carol ''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the ...

Biology

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

Sea fan Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treat ...

, 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 In computational geometry, a fan triangulation is a simple way to Polygon triangulation, triangulate a polygon by choosing a Vertex (geometry), vertex and drawing Edge (geometry), edges to all of the other vertices of the polygon. Not every poly ...

, 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 Frank and Andy Frank. It runs on the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), JavaScript, and the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) (.NET support is considered "protot ...

* 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 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 v ...

, 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 Semi-arid climate, semiar ...

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 glacier terminus, terminus of a glacier. As it flows, the glacier grinds the underlying r ...

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. ...

(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) Fán (樊) is a Chinese family name. It was the name of a fief, located in present-day Jiyuan Jiyuan ( zh, s= , t=濟源 , p=Jìyuán) is a sub-prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the p ...

(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 () and the Lesser Fan (), that join a few kilometers west of the town Rrëshen. The Great Fan rises near the village Kryezi, Qafë-Mali ...

, 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, also known as Huanghe, i ...

, 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 turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft engine, aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a combination of references to the preceding generation engine technology of the turbojet and the add ...

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

Weapons

Japanese war fan The Japanese war fan, or ''tessen'' (), is a Japanese hand fan used as a weapon or for signalling. Several types of war fans were used by the samurai class of feudal Japan and each had a different look and purpose. Description War fans varied i ...

, 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) In ancient China, the term ''fan'' () became associated with a basic concept within Daoism: the ''Daodejing'' remarks "Reversal is the movement of the Way ... Being is born from nonbeing." Daoist texts use ''fan'' in three interconnected meanin ...

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

Fang language Fang () is a Central African language spoken by around one 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 s ...

, ISO 639-2 code * Nicaraguan Air Force (Spanish: ''Fuerza Aérea Nicaragüense'')