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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 br ...
, collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments * Horn (anatomy), 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, 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, also known as ''Hörn'', a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death


Places

* Cape Horn, 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, also known as "the horn" * Two-way radio, also known as "the horn"


Other uses

* Horn (Chinese constellation), 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 * Horn antenna, 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 ...
, a device that helps control the control surfaces of an aircraft * ''Horn'' (video game), a mobile game


See also

* * Horned God * Horns (disambiguation) *
Horne (disambiguation) Horne may refer to: Places *Horn (Netherlands), the village of Horn or Horne in the Netherlands *Horne (Denmark), a village near Hirtshals in Hjørring Kommune, Denmark *County of Horne, historic county from the Holy Roman Empire, located in what ...
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Hoorn (disambiguation) Hoorn is a city in North Holland, the Netherlands. Hoorn may also refer to: Places * Hoorn, Heerde, Gelderland, Netherlands * Hoorn, Friesland, Netherlands * County of Horne, or Hoorn, a county of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Netherlands ...
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