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 A horn is a sound-making device installed on motor vehicles, trains, boats, and other types of vehicles. The sound it makes usually resembles a “honk” (older vehicles) or a “beep” (modern vehicles). The driver uses the horn to warn other ...

Train horn A train horn is an air horn used as an audible warning device on diesel and electric-powered trains. Its primary purpose is to alert persons and animals to an oncoming train, especially when approaching a level crossing. They are often extreme ...

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 Pharaoh Overlord is an experimental rock (music), rock music band, initially featuring three members of the Finnish group Circle (Finnish band), Circle, Jussi Lehtisalo, Janne Westerlund and Tomi Leppänen. Originally begun as a vehicle to indulg ...

* "The Horn", a song by Super Furry Animals from the 2005 album ''

Love Kraft ''Love Kraft'' is the seventh studio album by Welsh indie rock band Super Furry Animals, released on 22 August 2005 through Epic Records in the United Kingdom. The album was recorded in Spain with producer Mario Caldato Jr and was something of ...

'' * "The Horn", a comedy track from the 1978 album '' Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam'' * ''Horn'' (video game), 2012 *

The Horn (film) ''The Horn'' () is a 2020 Sri Lankan Sinhala sci-fi horror film directed by Sameera Wakwella and produced by Deepika Kaluarachchi for ZOOM Film Productions. It stars newcomers Kalhara Wakwella and Teena Shanel in lead role with Roshan Pilapitiya, ...

, 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 Bezirk Horn is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are ind ...

, Austria **

Horn, Austria Horn () is a small town in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria, Austria and the capital of the district of the same name. Population Notable people * Marie Andree-Eysn (1847-1929), an Austrian botanist and folklorist. * Moriz Winternitz (1863 ...

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 Horn () is a district in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 the population was 37,903. History During World War II Hamburg and, therefore, Horn were targets of the air raids of the so-called Operation G ...

, Germany *

Horn Island (Mississippi) Horn Island is a long, thin barrier island off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, south of Ocean Springs. It is one of the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands and part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Horn Island is several miles long, bu ...

, United States * Horn, Nebraska, United States *

Horn, Netherlands Horn (; ) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Leudal, and lies about 5 km northwest of Roermond. History The village was first mentioned in 1102 as "Engelbertus de Hurne", and means "corner ...

Horn Island, Queensland Horn Island, or ''Ngurupai/Narupai'' (pronounced ''Nœrupai/Nurupai'') in the local language, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago located in the Torres Strait, in Queensland in Northern Australia between the Australian mainland ...

, Australia * Horn, a ferry docking point on

Randsfjorden Randsfjorden is Norway's fourth-largest lake with an area of . Its volume is estimated at just over , and its greatest depth is . The lake is located at an elevation of above sea level. It is located in Innlandet and Akershus counties in the m ...

, Norway *

Horn, Rhineland-Palatinate Horn () is an – a municipality belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Sim ...

, Germany *

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 Bas ...

, Northwest Territories, Canada *

Horn, Rutland Horn is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Exton and Horn, in the county of Rutland, England. In 2001 it had a population of 9, which was included in the civil parish of Empingham at the 2011 census. The parish is part of the Exton Hal ...

, England *

Horn (Schwarzbach) The river Horn (, ；, ) is a left tributary of Schwarzbach flowing through the department of Moselle, in northeastern France, and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in southwestern Germany. The Horn's headwaters rise in the French town of Bitch ...

, a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany *

Horn, Sweden Horn is a locality situated in Kinda Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 495 inhabitants in 2010. Climate Horn has a hybrid climate between continental and maritime tendencies. It is influenced by its interior position in a spot p ...

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) The Horn is the most prominent peak on the Mount Buffalo plateau in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The Horn has an elevation of Australian Height Datum, AHD. Found on the west side of the Victorian Alps (part of the Australian A ...

, a peak in Victoria, Australia * The Horn (New Hampshire), a peak in the United States

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Horn Cable Television Horn Cable TV (HCTV) is a Somali news-based private television channel. Overview Founded in 2003, Horn Cable TV broadcasts in Somali from its headquarters in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. The station also has studios in Mogadishu and Lon ...

, a television channel in Somalia *

Horn (Chinese constellation) The Horn mansion (角宿, pinyin: Jiǎo Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon The Azure Dragon ( zh, c=青龍, p=Qīnglóng) is one of the Dragon Kin ...

, 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 200px, The Horn family coat of arms features a black drinking horn on yellow background The Horn family () is a Swedish noble family from Finland, known since the 14th century. History Its first known member, Olof Mattsson, is documented betwe ...

, 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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