Horn

Horn may refer to:

Horn (anatomy), a hollow, stiff, pointed projection of the skin of various animals

Horn can also refer to things that are made from, and/or are shaped like, the anatomical object:

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 section; "horn" can be a slang reference to any of those instruments
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 (acoustic), an open-ended tapered sound-guide to match a sound-producing device to the characteristic impedance of free space
- A common example is a car horn; see also Klaxon
- A horn speaker incorporates this principle into a loudspeaker
Horn (telescope), a stationary radio telescope
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

Related slang usages include:

"Horn" is military jargon for a telephone
"Horns" is a shortened version of "Longhorns", the name of the sports teams of the University of Texas
- Hook 'em Horns is a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams
Devil horns is a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries. It is also used in heavy metal.

Horn can refer to one of the following places:

Horn, Austria
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 Lüttich
Horn, Rutland, a small civil parish in England
Horn, Sweden
Horn, Switzerland
Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America

Horn is also a surname:

Alfred Horn (1918–2001), American mathematician
- Horn clause is a term in formal logic named after him
Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn, an African trader during the Scramble for Africa
Dimitris Horn (1921-1998), famous Greek actor
Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1994–1998
Frederik Winkel Horn (1845–1898), Danish writer and translator
Frederik Winkel-Horn (1756–1837), Danish writer
Paul Horn (b. 1930), flautist
Dr. Paul Horn, computer scientist
Rebecca Horn (b. 1944), German installation artist
The Horn (family) family in Finland and Sweden
- Count Arvid Horn (1664–1742), Swedish statesman of the Swedish Empire
- Evert Horn (1585-1615), Swedish soldier
- Count Gustaf Horn (1592–1657), Swedish commander of the Swedish Empire in the Thirty Years' War

In fiction and mythology:

See also