Flann
| Pronunciation | /flæn/ FLAN |
|---|---|
| Gender | male/female |
| Name day | 15 December |
| Other gender | |
| Masculine | Flann/Flannan |
| Feminine | Flann/Flannaid |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Irish |
| Meaning | from the Irish meaning 'red-haired' |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Flannan, Flannaid |
Flann is both an English surname and an Irish masculine given name, but has also been used as a feminine given name.[1]
It might refer to:
- Flann Fína mac Ossu, another name for King Aldfrith of Northumbria (died 704 or 705)
- Flann mac Lonáin (died 896), Irish poet
- Flann Sinna (died 916), also called Flann mac Maíl Sechnaill, High King of Ireland
- Flann Mainistrech (died 1056), Irish scholar
- Flann O'Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966)
FLANN, an acronym for Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors, is a C++ library for approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional spaces.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Flann". Medieval Scotland. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ Arul Suju, Hancy Jose, FLANN: Fast approximate nearest neighbour search algorithm for elucidating human-wildlife conflicts in forest areas doi:10.1109/ICSCN.2017.8085676
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