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Fan commonly refers to:

 Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often for cooling

o Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air
 Fan (person), short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter,
especially with regard to entertainment or sports
Fan or fans may also refer to:

Contents

 1Arts, entertainment, and media

o 1.1Music
o 1.2Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 2Biology
 3Computing and mathematics
 4Geology
 5People
 6Places
 7Technology
 8Weapons
 9Other uses
 10See also

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Music[edit]
 "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
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

 Fan (film), a 2016 Indian Hindi film

 Fan, a character in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Biology[edit]

 Free amino nitrogen, in brewing and winemaking, amino acids

available for yeast metabolism
 Sea fan, a marine animal of the cnidarian phylum

Computing and mathematics[edit]

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

 Fan (order), a class of preorderings on a field
 Fan triangulation, a fast method to decompose a convex polygon in
triangles
 .fan filename extension for the 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

Geology[edit]
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

People[edit]
 Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common
Chinese surname
o 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[edit]

 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[edit]

 Future Air Navigation System, or FAN, an air traffic control scheme

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

Weapons[edit]

 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[edit]

 Fan (cards), to spread playing cards fanwise

 Fan (Daoism), 反 philosophical concept of "return; reverse; repeat"
 Fang language, ISO 639-2 code
 Forces Armées du Nord (Armed Forces of the North), a Chadian
rebel army

See also[edit]

 Fandom (disambiguation)
 Fanfan (disambiguation)
 Fanning (disambiguation)
 The Fan (disambiguation)