Horn may refer to:

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Horn (acoustic) An acoustic horn or waveguide is a tapered sound guide designed to provide an acoustic impedance match between a sound source and free air. This has the effect of maximizing the efficiency with which sound waves from the particular source are trans ...

, a tapered sound guide **

Horn antenna A horn antenna or microwave horn is an antenna (radio), antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn (acoustic), horn to direct radio waves in a beam. Horns are widely used as antennas at Ultrahigh frequency, UHF and m ...

Horn loudspeaker A horn loudspeaker is a loudspeaker or loudspeaker element which uses an horn (acoustic), acoustic horn to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element(s). A common form ''(right)'' consists of a compression driver which produces sound ...

** Vehicle horn ** Train horn *

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 *

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 bra ...

, a family of musical instruments **

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

, often simply called a horn

Arts and entertainment

* ''Horn'' (album), by Apink, 2022 * ''Horn'', a 2011 album by Pharaoh Overlord * "The Horn", a song by Super Furry Animals from the 2005 album '' Love Kraft'' * "The Horn", a comedy track from the 1978 album '' Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam'' * ''Horn'' (video game), 2012 * The Horn (film), a 2020 Sri Lankan Sinhala sci-fi horror film

Places

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), ...

* Horn District, Austria ** Horn, Austria *

Horn (am Bodensee) Horn (am Bodensee) is a village in Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's we ...

, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Horn, Hamburg, Germany * Horn Island (Mississippi), United States * Horn, Nebraska, United States * Horn, Netherlands * Horn Island, Queensland, Australia * Horn, a ferry docking point on Randsfjorden, Norway * Horn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Horn River, Northwest Territories, Canada * Horn, Rutland, England * Horn (Schwarzbach), a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany * Horn, Sweden *

Horn, Switzerland Horn () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Arbon (district), Arbon in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Horn is an exclave of Thurgau, enclaved in the canton of St. Gallen. History Horn ...

The Horn (Antarctica) Eagle Island () is an island long and wide, rising to on the NE side. It is the largest island in the archipelago which lies between Trinity Peninsula and Vega Island. Eagle Island is separated from the Antarctic mainland by the 1.77 km w ...

, a hill on Eagle Island, Graham Land, Antarctica * The Horn (Mount Buffalo), a peak in Victoria, Australia * The Horn (New Hampshire), a peak in the United States

Other uses

* Horn Cable Television, a television channel in Somalia * Horn (Chinese constellation), part of the European constellation Virgo *

Horn (diacritic) The horn ( 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 rarely considered ...

, in the Vietnamese alphabet *

Horn (heraldry) Horn () are common features in crests in Scandinavian and German heraldry, although rare in other heraldic traditions. As these horns, almost always in a pair, were often drawn with an open ring at the tip, they have sometimes been altered into ...

, common features in crests in Scandinavian and German heraldry * Horn family, Swedish noble family from Finland * Horn (surname), including a list of people with the name * Horn, part of a

saddle A 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 know ...

* Hörn, or

Freyja In Norse mythology, 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 ...

, a Norse goddess *

Pyramidal peak A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from the cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point. Pyramidal peaks are often examples o ...

, sometimes called a glacial horn * The horn, a slang term for

telephone A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables 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 ...

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