Flann

Flann
Pronunciation/flæn/ FLAN
Gendermale/female
Name day15 December
Other gender
MasculineFlann/Flannan
FeminineFlann/Flannaid
Origin
Word/nameIrish
Meaningfrom 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]

References

  1. ^ "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Flann". Medieval Scotland. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  2. ^ 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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