Usually means: External appendage for swimming, stabilization.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. fin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fin, fin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Fin, fin, fin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fin, fin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fin: Vocabulary.com
  6. F'in, Fin, Fin, f'in, fin, fin: Wordnik
  7. fin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fin, Fin, Fin: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Fin, fin: Wiktionary
  10. fin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. fin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. fin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. FIN, fin: Dictionary.com
  14. fin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. fin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. FIN, Fin (John Talabot album), Fin (Syd album), Fin (aeronautics), Fin (band), Fin (comics), Fin (disambiguation), Fin (extended surface), Fin (geology), Fin (song), Fin (troll), Fin, The fin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Fin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. fin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. fin: Rhymezone
  20. fin, fin, fin(e), fin (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. fin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. FIN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Fin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. fin: Free Dictionary
  25. fin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. fin: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. Fin, fin: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fin-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FIN: Hacking Lexicon
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. fin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. fin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. FIN: Acronym Finder
  2. FIN: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  4. fin: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fin: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fin, fin, fin, fin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fin: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. F'in, the fin: Urban Dictionary
  4. Fin: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Fin: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
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  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. FIN: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
noun:  A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
noun:  A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
noun:  A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
noun:  (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
noun:  A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
noun:  A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
noun:  An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
noun:  A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
noun:  (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
verb:  (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
verb:  (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
verb:  (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
noun:  (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
noun:  (US, slang, dated) a five-dollar bill; the sum of five dollars.
noun:  (archaic, film, television) "The end".
noun:  (obsolete, road signs) Denotes the end of the road.
noun:  commune in the Somme department in France
noun:  (telecommunications, US) Initialism of facility ID number.
noun:  (law enforcement, UK) Initialism of force identification number.

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