Tan
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Tan or TAN may refer to:
Common meanings
- Tan (color), pale shade of brown
- Tangent function, or tan, one of the main trigonometric functions
Tanning
- Tanning, the process of making leather from hides
- Sun tanning, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light
- Sunless tanning, the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light
Biology
- Tanbark, or tan, bark of certain species of tree
- Tan (goat pattern), goat color pattern
Geography
History
- Tanfana, or Tan, ancient European goddess.
- Black and Tans, nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence
- Irish War of Independence, sometimes called the Black and Tan war or Tan war.
- Tan (surname) (譚), a Chinese surname.
- Chen (surname) (陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages.
- Lao Zi, posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China.
- Tan (state), ancient Chinese viscountcy situated in eastern Shandong Province.
- Leborgne, nickname Tan, a patient of Paul Broca, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area.
Food
- Tahn (Armenian թան tʻan), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East
Other
- TAN Books & Publishers, a Catholic publishing company
- OS-tan, an Internet phenomenon on Futaba Channel
- Tan, an album by the Polish rock band Kult
- The Tan Track, a running track in Melbourne, Australia
Abbreviations
- Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram; the ISO 3166 trigram is TZA)
- Total acid number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity
- Transaction authentication number in electronic banking
- Taunton Municipal Airport, IATA airport code TAN, airport in Taunton, Massachusetts
- Tax Deduction Account Number, Indian tax code
See also
- Tannin (disambiguation)
- Tanning (disambiguation)
- Tanzhou (disambiguation), a Chinese placename originally meaning "Tan District" and now meaning "Tan City"
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