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

• Tân An, Bắc Giang
• Tân An, Long An
• Tân An Province

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"