Horn most often refers to: * Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound **

Horn (instrument) A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges. In horns, unlike some other bras ...

, collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *

Horn (anatomy) A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. Horns are distinct from antlers, which are not permanent. In mammals, true horn ...

, a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals, either the "true" horn, or other horn-like growths ** Horn, a colloquial reference to

keratin Keratin () is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as ''scleroproteins''. Alpha-keratin (α-keratin) is a type of keratin found in vertebrates. It is the key structural material making up scales, hair, nails, feathers, ...

, the substance that is the main component of the tissue that sheaths the bony core of horns and hoofs of various animals Horn may also refer to:

Audio

* Horn loudspeaker * Vehicle horn ** Train horn

Personal name

* Horn (surname) *

Freyja In Norse paganism, Freyja ( Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a char ...

, also known as ''Hörn'', a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death

Places

Cape Horn Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramí ...

, the southernmost point of South America *

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

, a peninsula in northeast Africa * Horn (district), a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria ** Horn, Austria, a small town, capital of the Horn District * Horn, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Horn, Hamburg, a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany * Horn (Netherlands), a town in the Dutch province of Limburg, and a separate municipality until 1991 * Horn, Oppland, a ferry docking point on the east side of Randsfjorden, a lake in Norway * Horn, Rutland, a civil parish in the East Midlands of England * Horn, Sweden, a locality * Horn, Switzerland, a municipality in the district in the canton of Thurgau *

Horn, Nebraska Horn is an unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States. History Horn was formerly called Remington. It was located on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroa ...

, a community in the United States * Horn Island, Queensland, one of the Torres Strait Islands *

Horn River The Horn River is a river in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is a major tributary of the Mackenzie River. The river gives the name to the Horn River Formation, a shale deposit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The Horn River ...

, Northwest Territories, Canada * Horn (Schwarzbach), a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany * The Horn (Mount Buffalo), a peak in Victoria, Australia *

The Horn (New Hampshire) The Horn is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is part of the Pilot Range of the White Mountains. The Horn is flanked to the southwest by the Bulge. The Horn stands within the watershed of the Upper Ammonoosuc Riv ...

, a peak in the northeastern United States

Music

* ''Horn'' (album), an album by Pharaoh Overlord * ''Horn'' (Apink album), 2022 * "The Horn", a song from the album '' Love Kraft'' by Super Furry Animals * "The Horn", from the album ''

Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of '' Diederik'', the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of " people- ruler". Common variants of the na ...

'', a comedy track by Derek and Clive

Slang

Telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into el ...

, also known as "the horn" *

Two-way radio A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive radio waves (a transceiver), unlike a radio broadcasting, broadcast receiver which only receives content. It is an audio (sound) transceiver, a transmitter and radio receiver, receive ...

, also known as "the horn"

Other uses

Horn (Chinese constellation) The Horn mansion (角宿, pinyin: Jiǎo Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials ...

, part of the European constellation Virgo *

Horn (diacritic) The horn ( vi, dấu móc or ) is a diacritic mark attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u in the Vietnamese alphabet to give ơ and ư, unrounded variants of the vowel represented by the basic letter. In Vietnamese, they are rare ...

, a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as ''o'' or ''u'' is to be pronounced unrounded * Horn Cable Television, a television channel in Somalia * The knob-like appendage attached to the pommel of a

saddle The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider of an animal, fastened to an animal's back by a girth. The most common type is equestrian. However, specialized saddles have been created for oxen, camels and other animals. It is not kno ...

Horn antenna A horn antenna or microwave horn is an antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam. Horns are widely used as antennas at UHF and microwave frequencies, above 300 MHz. They are ...

, a type of antenna shaped like a horn and also called "horn" * Glacial horn, a pyramid-shaped peak sculpted by glacial erosion *

Control horn Aircraft flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Development of an effective set of flight control surfaces was a critical advance in the development of aircraft. Ea ...