Fanning

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Fanning might mean one of:

• Dakota Fanning, an American child actress
• Elle Fanning, an American child actress, younger sister of Dakota
• Nathaniel Fanning, an American war hero
• Juan Fanning, a Peruvian war hero
• Edmund Fanning, an American explorer
• Edmund Fanning, an American colonial administrator
• Shawn Fanning, a computer programmer and creator of the original Napster application
• Michael Fanning, a marriage and family therapist from Springfield, Missouri
• Fanning Atoll or Fanning Island is the old name of the island of Tabuaeran, one of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean
• Fanning is the gerund form of the verb "fan"
• Fanning is a revolver shooting technique, in which one hand holds the revolver and the other hits the revolver hammer repeatedly. This turns the cylinder and hits the firing pin in that order, allowing for 'automatic fire' of a revolver. This technique only works with single action revolvers, and, when performed very quickly, can be very damaging to the cylinder stop mechanism. This technique is used extensively in Fast Draw competitions, which generally use special lightweight aluminum or titanium blank firing cylinders, rather than the steel cylinders normally found on single action revolvers.
• Fanning friction factor a dimensionless number used in fluid flow calculations.