(historical) A large hand-held fan used outdoors to protect the face from the sun.

(historical) A lady's small hand-held fan for use at parties, entertainments, and court ceremonies.

A type of fan designed to remove moisture from a room, or dust or fumes from certain environments.

plural of fan-wheel

A wheel with fans on its rim for producing a current of air.

A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sports, fan.

Alternative spelling of winnowing fan

plural of fan marker

(aviation) An obsolescent type of marker beacon, usually used to mark en route airways but occasionally used as part of a non-precision approach, which radiates in a pattern that is considerably wider, from the perspective of an aircraft approaching the marker along the airway, than it is long (allowing an aircraft to pick up the signal from the marker even if slightly to one side of the airway's centerline).

Alternative spelling of fan fiction