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fanon | fano |

As a noun fanon

is a vestment reserved only for the pope for use during a pontifical mass or fanon can be (informal|fandom) elements introduced by fans which are not in the official canon of a fictional world but are widely believed to be or treated as if canonical.

As a proper noun fano is

a coastal town in the pesaro e urbino province of marche, italy.

fanon

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.
  • Part of a bishop's mitre. They are the tabs extending down from the mitre, often with a cross near the end of each. See lappet.
  • A maniple.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal, fandom) Elements introduced by fans which are not in the official canon of a fictional world but are widely believed to be or treated as if canonical.
  • See also
    * headcanon

    References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (f)
  • fennel
  • fano

    English

    (Fano variety)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample.
  • References

    * 1999 : A. N. Parshin, Igor? Rostislavovich Shafarevich, Algebraic geometry V: fano varieties *: Therefore the Mori program established the important role that fano varieties play in the birational classification of algebraic varieties. * 2007 : Alessio Corti, Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds *: Shokurov conjectures that a Shokurov algebra on variety admitting a weak fano contraction is finitely generated. ----