Usually means: Ratio of opposite to adjacent.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tan, tan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Tan, tan, tan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tan: Vocabulary.com
  6. T'an, Tan, Tan, Tan, tan: Wordnik
  7. tan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tan: Wiktionary
  9. tan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Tan, tan: Dictionary.com
  13. tan (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TAN (banking), TAN (musician), TAN, Tan(x), Tan (color), Tan (colour), Tan (goat pattern), Tan (patient), Tan (surname), Tan, -tan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tan: Rhymezone
  19. tan, tan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. TAN, tan: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. tan: Free Dictionary
  23. tan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Tan, tan: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Tan: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tan: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. tan: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. TAN: Investopedia
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. TAN: Securities Terminology
  5. Tan(): Legal dictionary
  6. TAN: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tan(), tan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tan: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tan: Eastern Tea
  2. TAN: Acronym Finder
  3. TAN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. tan: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tan: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. tan: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tan, tan, Tan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tan: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. The Tan, tan: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Karate Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Tan: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. Oil Analysis (No longer online)

(Note: See taning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A light, brown-like colour.
noun:  A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
noun:  The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
adjective:  Yellowish-brown.
adjective:  Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
noun:  An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
noun:  Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
noun:  (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
verb:  (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
noun:  A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
noun:  A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
noun:  A surname from Vietnamese.
noun:  Alternative form of Dan [The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).]
noun:  (engineering) Initialism of total acid number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity. See Total acid number on Wikipedia.
noun:  (banking) Initialism of transaction authentication number, in electronic banking. See Transaction authentication number on Wikipedia.

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