generally refers to:
- Horn (anatomy) , a hollow, stiff, pointed projection of the skin of various animals, as an organ or its material
can also refer to things that are made from, and/or are shaped like, the anatomical object:
- Horn (acoustic) , an open-ended tapered sound-guide to match a sound-producing device to the characteristic impedance of free space
- --- Horn (instrument) , sometimes called a "French horn," a brass musical instrument constructed of coiled tubing
-- The brass and woodwind musicians in a jazz or R&B band are sometimes referred to collectively as the ; "horn" can be a slang reference to any of those instruments
- --- A Horn Speaker incorporates this principle into a loudspeaker
- --- Alerting/alarm devices
-- A common example is a ; see also Klaxon
-- A railway Train Whistle .
-- Foghorn
- Drinking Horn , an ancient drinking vessel
- Anointing Horn , used for the unction at a coronation
- Horn (telecommunications) , an open-ended radio waveguide of increasing cross-sectional area
- Horn (telescope) , a stationary radio telescope
- Horn, a Smoking Pipe shaped like a bull's horn or as a bent cone (as known from ' Sherlock Holmes ')
- Horn (Chinese Constellation) , a constellation in Chinese astronomy
- Glacial Horn , a sharp mountain peak created by glacial erosion
- Horn (diacritic) , a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as ''o'' or ''u'' is to be pronounced unrounded
- Horn Of Plenty
- Horn-rimmed
Related slang usages include:
can refer to one of the following places:
- Horn Of Africa , Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti
- Horn, Austria and the surrounding Horn District
- Horn (Germany)
- Horn (Netherlands) , a village in the municipality of Haelen
- --- Horne (county) , a small historic countship of the Holy Roman Empire associated with the village, which was merged into the Prince-Bishopric Of Liège
- Horn, Rutland , a small civil parish in England
- Horn, Sweden
- Horn, Switzerland
- Cape Horn , the southernmost point of South America
is also a surname: see Horn (surname) .
in fiction and mythology:
may refer to a company:
- The Horn Book is a publisher of journals in the field of children’s and young adults' literature
- HORN is a sales force consulting firm
- HORN or H.O.R.N. is an abbreviation for the Head On Radio Network
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