Fan

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Fan commonly refers to:

• Fan (person), a fanatical enthusiast or supporter, especially with regard to entertainment and sports
• Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often for cooling

Fan or fans may also refer to:

Biology

• Free amino nitrogen, in brewing and winemaking, amino acids available for yeast metabolism
  • Yeast assimilable nitrogen, or YAN, a term in winemaking that is often used interchangeably with FAN
• Sea fan, a marine animal of the Cnidarian phylum

Computing

• 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
• Fan triangulation, a fast method to decompose a convex polygon in triangles

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

Mathematics

• Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line
• Fan (order), a class of preorderings on a field

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

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, an air traffic control scheme
• Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air
• Winnowing fan, device for winnowing grain
• Turbofan, a type of jet engine

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

• Fan (film), a 2016 Indian Hindi film
• Fang language, by ISO 639-2 code
• Armed Forces of the North, a Chadian rebel army
• Fan, a character in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu

See also

• The Fan (disambiguation)
• Fanfan (disambiguation)
• Fanning (disambiguation)