Fan commonly refers to:
- Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often for cooling
- 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:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
- "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
- Fan (film), a 2016 Indian Hindi film
- Fan, a character in the video game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Biology
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- Fandom (disambiguation)
- Fanfan (disambiguation)
- Fanning (disambiguation)
- The Fan (disambiguation)