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Fan or FANS may refer to the following:

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
• Engine fan - used to cool the engine's coolant when the car is stationary or moving slowly

Names

• Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common Chinese surname, e.g. "Fan Yang"

Words

• Fan, a Swedish profanity roughly translated as devil
• Fan (person), someone who has an intense appreciation for something(s) or someone(s)
• fan (分), or candareen, a Chinese weight unit for 10 cash

Entertainment

• Fans (Web Series)*
• The Fan (film) is the title of three films
• The Fan is another name for the La Belle Lucie solitaire game
• Card fan or flourish,, a display of cards in a manner that looks like folding fan

• "Fans" (song), a track of the Kings of Leon album Because of the Times.
• Fans (webcomic), a webcomic by T Campbell

Places

• The Fan or Fan district is a historic district in Richmond, Virginia
• the Fan is the nickname for the Beijing National Indoor Stadium

Biology

• Sea fan, a marine animal of the Cnidarian phylum

Geology

• Alluvial fan, a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads onto a flatter plain

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

FAN as an acronym can also mean

• File Area Network
• Fluoride Action 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

• Future Air Navigation System or FANS is an air traffic control scheme from ICAO also known as CNS/ATM

See also

• Fandom
• The Fan
• Fan death
• Fan coil

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