Horn

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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:

• the Horn of Plenty
• King Horn

See also

• Hoorn
• Horne
• Horny

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