A fin is an appendage used to produce lift and thrust or to steer while traveling in water, air, or other fluid media.
Fin, FIN, or Fins may also refer to:
Biology
People
- Fín (died 604), Gaelic princess, wife of Oswiu of Northumbria
- Finns, people from Finland
- Fin Bartels (born 1987), German football midfielder
- Fin Donnelly (born 1966), Canadian politician
- Fin Dow-Smith, (born 1988), British songwriter
- Fin Leavell, American musician
- Fin Taylor, (born 1990), English stand-up comedian
- Fin Wilson (1888–1959), American professional baseball pitcher
- Henri Fin (born 1950), French cyclist
Legendary and fictional characters
- Fin (comics), the name of two characters from Marvel Comics
- Fin (troll), in Danish legend
- Fin the Whale, the mascot of the Vancouver Canucks
- Fin Tutuola, a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Places
- Fin, Iran, a city
- Fins, Somme, a commune in France
- Fin District, Iran
- Fin Garden, in Kashan, Iran
- Fin Island, in British Columbia, Canada
- Fin Rural District, Iran
- Finland
Music
- Fin (band), an English indie rock band
- Fin (John Talabot album), 2012
- Fin (Syd album), 2017
- "Fin", a 2006 song by Supergrass from the album Road to Rouen
- "Fin" (song), a 1986 song by Akina Nakamori
- "Fin", a song by Christie Front Drive from Christie Front Drive, 1997
- "Fin", a song by Nebula from the 2003 album Atomic Ritual
- "Fins" (song), a 1979 song by American singer Jimmy Buffett
- "(*Fin)", a song by Anberlin from their 2007 album Cities
Sport
- Federazione Italiana Nuoto, the Italian Swimming Federation
- Miami Dolphins, an American football team
- Surfboard fin, a hydrofoil mounted at the tail of a surfboard
- Swimfin, a fin-like shoe used to help movement through the water
Technology
- Fin (extended surface), on a radiator
- Fin (submarine), a tower-like structure on the topside surface of submarines
- Finnair, a Finnish airline
Other uses
- Fin (geology), narrow, residual walls of hard sedimentary rock
- Fin, the text sometimes placed at the end of a film
- Finnish language, by ISO 639-2 language code
- The Australian Financial Review, an Australian business newspaper
- Facility ID number, assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission
- Force identification number
- Internationalist League of Norway (Norwegian: Forbundet Internasjonalen i Noreg)
- United States five-dollar bill
See also
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