Fan
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Fan may refer to the following:
- Fan (person), someone who has an intense appreciation for something(s) or someone(s)
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[edit] Ventilation
A device to agitate or move air or other gas
The human powered Fan (implement) is a hand-held implement used by waving it back and forth.
Motor powered Fans: mechanical fans such as oscillating fans, ceiling fans, blowers, etc.
- Centrifugal fan
- Ceiling fan, also available as a floor verity in tropical countries
- Computer fan, also found in a larger form in applications like radio transmitters
[edit] Misc
- Triangle fan, a data structure to describe polygons in computer graphics
- Japanese war fan, an object used in Japanese feudal warfare, also used in martial arts
- Card fan or flourish,, a display of cards in a manner that looks like folding fan
[edit] Names & Place Names
- Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common Chinese surname, e.g. "Fan Yang"
- fan (分), or candareen, a Chinese weight unit for 10 cash
- Fan, a Swedish profanity roughly translated as devil
- The Fan or Fan district is a historic district in Richmond, Virginia
- The Fan (film) is the title of three films
- The Fan is another name for the La Belle Lucie solitaire game
[edit] Biology
- Sea fan, a marine animal of the Cnidarian phylum
[edit] Geology
- Alluvial fan, a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads onto a flatter plain
[edit] Fans may refer to
- "Fans" (song), a track of the Kings of Leon album Because of the Times.
- Fans (webcomic), a webcomic by T Campbell
- Future Air Navigation System or FANS is an air traffic control scheme from ICAO also known as CNS/ATM
[edit] FAN as an acronym can also mean
- File Area Network
- Fuerza Armada Nacional, Spanish for National Armed Forces, the military of Venezuela
- Forces Armées du Nord, French for Armed Forces of the North, a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War
- Free Amino Nitrogen, in brewing, amino acids available for yeast metabolism
[edit] See also
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