(entomology) Having a fan-like arrangement of the nervures or veins of the wings.

plural of fan-wheel

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

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.

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).

present participle of fan the fire

simple past tense and past participle of fan the fire

(linguistics) a set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German consonant shift gradually decreases towards the north-west (i.e. towards Low Franconian)