# Tan

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**Tan** or **TAN** may refer to:

## Math

- [Tangent function](/source/Tangent_function), a trigonometric function often referred to as tan.

## Arts and entertainment

- *Tan*, a 1989 album by the Polish rock band [Kult](/source/Kult_(band))
- "Tan", a 2026 song by the Scythe from the album *[Strictly 4 the Scythe](/source/Strictly_4_the_Scythe)*
- [TAN (group)](/source/TAN_(group)), South Korean boy band
- [*Tan* (newspaper)](/source/Tan_(newspaper)), a newspaper in Turkey
- [*Tan* (weekly newspaper)](/source/Tan_(weekly_newspaper)), a newspaper in Kosovo

## Businesses and organisations

- [TAN Books](/source/TAN_Books), a Catholic publishing company
- [FC Rubin-TAN Kazan](/source/FC_Rubin-TAN_Kazan), a Russian professional ice hockey club in Kazan in 1991-94
- [Transportes Aéreos Nacionales](/source/Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Nacionales) or TAN Airlines, an airline based in Honduras
- [Semitan](/source/Semitan) or TAN, operates public transport in Nantes, France

## People

- [Tan (surname)](/source/Tan_(surname)) (譚), a Chinese surname
- [Chen (surname)](/source/Chen_(surname)) (陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages
- [Laozi](/source/Laozi), posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China
- [Leborgne](/source/Leborgne), nicknamed Tan, a patient of Paul Broca's, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area
- [Mika Tan](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Tan) (born 1977), an American model
- [TAN (musician)](/source/TAN_(musician)) (born 1990), Malaysian pop singer
- [Tan Sağtürk](/source/Tan_Sa%C4%9Ft%C3%BCrk) (born 1969), Turkish ballet dancer
- [Tan France](/source/Tan_France) (born 1983), British-American fashion designer

## Places

### China

- [Tan (state)](/source/Tan_(state)), an ancient viscountcy in eastern Shandong Province, China
- [Tai'an railway station (Shandong)](/source/Tai'an_railway_station_(Shandong)), China Railway code TAN

### Vietnam

- [Tân An, Bắc Giang](/source/T%C3%A2n_An,_B%E1%BA%AFc_Giang), a northeastern commune and village
- [Tân An](/source/T%C3%A2n_An), the capital city of Long An Province, Mekong Delta
- [Tân An province](/source/T%C3%A2n_An_province), a former province of South Vietnam

### Elsewhere

- Tan Track or "The Tan", a running track in [Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Melbourne#The_Tan), Australia
- [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania) (IOC and FIFA trigram: TAN), a country
- [Taunton Municipal Airport](/source/Taunton_Municipal_Airport) (IATA airport code: TAN), Massachusetts, US

## Science and technology

- [Tan (color)](/source/Tan_(color)), a pale shade of brown
- [Tanning (leather)](/source/Tanning_(leather)), the process of making leather from hides
- [Tan (function)](/source/Tan_(function)), a trigonometric function
- [Ti-6Al-7Nb](/source/Ti-6Al-7Nb), a titanium alloy containing aluminum and niobium
- [Total acid number](/source/Total_acid_number) (TAN), the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity
- [Transaction authentication number](/source/Transaction_authentication_number) (TAN), in electronic banking
- [Tumor-associated neutrophil](/source/Tumor-associated_neutrophil)

### Biology

- [Tan (goat pattern)](/source/Tan_(goat_pattern)), a goat color pattern
- [Tanbark](/source/Tanbark) or tan, the bark of certain species of tree
- [Sun tanning](/source/Sun_tanning), the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light - [Sunless tanning](/source/Sunless_tanning), the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light
- [Tropical ataxic neuropathy](/source/Tropical_ataxic_neuropathy)

## Other uses

- [-tan](/source/-tan), a Japanese honorific
- [Tahn](/source/Tahn) (Armenian թան *tʻan*), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East
- [Tanfana](/source/Tanfana) or Tan, an ancient European goddess
- [Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number](/source/Tax_Deduction_and_Collection_Account_Number) (TAN), an Indian tax code

## See also

- [Black and Tans](/source/Black_and_Tans), a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence - [Irish War of Independence](/source/Irish_War_of_Independence), sometimes called the "Black and Tan war" or "Tan war"
- [Taan (disambiguation)](/source/Taan_(disambiguation))
- [Dan (disambiguation)](/source/Dan_(disambiguation)) (Tan is the older romanization of Dan in Chinese)
- [Tannin (disambiguation)](/source/Tannin_(disambiguation))
- [Tanning (disambiguation)](/source/Tanning_(disambiguation))
- [TANS (disambiguation)](/source/TANS_(disambiguation))
- [Tanzhou (disambiguation)](/source/Tanzhou_(disambiguation)), a Chinese placename "Tan District" or "Tan City"

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