If you look at a map of the streets in the Fan District of Richmond VA, you will see they do not run in a checkerboard fashion, but spread apart like an old time folding lady's fan.
It is called a fan.
A fan as in an object used to cool a person down is called 'un abanico' (hand-held fan) or 'un ventilador' (mechanical fan). However a fan as in a supporter of a person is called 'un admirador' ('una admiradora' for a female fan) or 'un/una fan'.
"Fan" in French is un ventilateur- a celebrity fan is called also a fan.
It's called fan mail fan letters
the plastic piece that directs the air flow of the fan is called the cooling fan shroud
Fan is called "पंक्तिचक्र" (Panktichakra) in Sanskrit language.
Heater fan and cooling fan.
A genre called fan fiction.
The Killers' official fan club is called The Victims.
A black pink fan is called a blink
Fan-in and Fan-out metrics are structural metrics which measure inter-module complexities. Fan-in: the number of modules that call a given module Fan-out: the numbers of modules that called by a given module
the bird that has a tail like a fan is called a 'Peacock'