Fen (disambiguation)

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The term fen or the acronym FEN can refer to:

  • Fen, a type of wetland, similar to a marsh or bog.
  • An invented alternative plural of fan, used by members of science fiction fandom to distinguish themselves from "fans" such as football fans, by analogy to "men" being the plural of "man", "women"/"woman", etc.
  • Forsyth-Edwards Notation for chess positions.
  • Far East Network, a former name for those American Forces Network radio and television stations in Japan, Korea, and other parts of East Asia. It was also the name of a magazine for Japanese fans of the Far East Network.
  • Fen, "分," a unit of money in mainland China, equivalent to 1/100 Chinese yuan.
  • The Fens, a low-lying geographical region of eastern England. It is fairly closely defined by geography but is not an administrative region, though there is a much smaller administrative district within The Fens, in Cambridgeshire, called Fenland District.
  • Fen Complex, Norway, an area of unusual igneous rocks.
  • The Fenn School, a boys' private school in Concord, Massachusetts.
  • The play Fen by English playwright Caryl Churchill.
  • The Fen River in China,
  • Fen-phen is an anti-obsesity drug that has been withdrawn from the U.S. market.