Fan commonly refers to: *

Fan (machine) A fan is a powered machine that creates airflow. A fan consists of rotating vanes or blades, generally made of wood, plastic, or metal, which act on the air. The rotating assembly of blades and hub is known as an ''impeller'', ''Rotor (electric) ...

, a machine for producing airflow, often used for cooling *

Hand fan A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is a broad, flat surface that is waved back and forth to create an airflow. Generally, purpose-made handheld fans are folding fans, which are shaped like a Circular sector, sector of a circle and made of a thi ...

, an implement held and waved by hand to move air for cooling *

Fan (person) A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a video ...

, short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially with regard to entertainment Fan, FAN or fans may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* "Fan" (Pascal Obispo song), 2003 * Fan (Offset song), 2023 * ''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

* ''Fan'' (2007 film), a Uruguayan drama film * ''Fan'' (2016 film), an Indian Hindi film * Fan, a character in the video game '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' * Fan, a character in the novella '' A Christmas Carol''

Biology

* Free amino nitrogen, in brewing and winemaking, amino acids available for yeast metabolism *

Sea fan Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treat ...

, a marine animal of the cnidarian phylum

Computing and mathematics

* Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line * Fan (order), a class of preorderings on a field * FAN algorithm, an algorithm for automatic test pattern generation * 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 * Fan, a type of polyhedral complex

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 An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to Semi-arid climate, semiar ...

Outwash plain An outwash plain, also called a sandur (plural: ''sandurs''), sandr or sandar, is a plain formed of glaciofluvial deposits due to meltwater outwash at the glacier terminus, terminus of a glacier. As it flows, the glacier grinds the underlying r ...

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 * Fán (surname) (Chinese character: 樊, pinyin: Fán), a common Chinese surname * 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, or FAN, an air traffic control scheme * Turbofan, a type of jet engine * Winnowing fan, device for winnowing grain

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

* Armed Forces of the North, a Chadian rebel army (French: ''Forces Armées du Nord'') * Fan (cards), to spread playing cards fanwise * Fan (Daoism), 反 philosophical concept of "return; reverse; repeat" * Fang language, ISO 639-2 code * Nicaraguan Air Force (Spanish: ''Fuerza Aérea Nicaragüense'')