Horn most often refers to: *

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 tran ...

, a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound ** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *

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 horns ...

, a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals, either the "true" horn, or other horn-like growths ** Horn, a colloquial reference to

keratin Keratin () is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as ''scleroproteins''. Alpha-keratin (α-keratin) is a type of keratin found in vertebrates. It is the key structural material making up scales, hair, nails, feathers, ho ...

, the substance that is the main component of the tissue that sheaths the bony core of horns and hoofs of various animals Horn may also refer to:

Audio

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

Vehicle horn A horn is a sound-making device that can be equipped to motor vehicles, buses, bicycles, trains, trams (otherwise known as streetcars in North America), and other types of vehicles. The sound made usually resembles a "honk" (older vehicles) or ...

Train horn In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often kn ...

Personal name

Horn (surname) Horn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan F. Horn (born 1943), American entertainment industry executive *Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn (1861–1931), trader in Africa during the "Scramble for Africa" *Alfred Horn (1918– ...

Freyja In Norse paganism, 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 chario ...

, also known as ''Hörn'', a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death

Places

Cape Horn Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramí ...

, the southernmost point of South America * Horn of Africa, a peninsula in northeast Africa *

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 ...

, a district of the state of Lower Austria in 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 Sport 2008 Austrian Cup winner SV Horn SV Horn is an Austrian association football club playing in the cit ...

, a small town, capital of the Horn District *

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

, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany *

Horn, Hamburg 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 Gomorrah. ...

, a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany *

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 ...

, a town in the Dutch province of Limburg, and a separate municipality until 1991 * Horn, Oppland, a ferry docking point on the east side of

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 Viken counties in the munic ...

, a lake in Norway *

Horn, Rutland Horn is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Exton and Horn, in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of 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 ...

, a civil parish in the East Midlands of England * Horn, Sweden, a locality *

Horn, Switzerland Horn is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Horn is an exclave of Thurgau, enclaved in the canton of St. Gallen. History Horn is first mentioned in 1155 as ''Horna''. The ''Kehlhof'' in Horn was bui ...

, a municipality in the district in the canton of Thurgau * Horn, Nebraska, a community in the United States *

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 mainlan ...

, one of the Torres Strait Islands * Horn River, Northwest Territories, Canada *

Horn (Schwarzbach) The river Horn ( French: ''Horn''; German: ''Hornbach'') 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 headwater ...

, a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany *

The Horn (Mount Buffalo) The Horn is the most prominent peak on the Mount Buffalo plateau in Victoria, Australia. The Horn has an elevation of AHD. Found on the west side of the Victorian Alps (part of the Australian Alps and the Great Dividing Range), the top ...

, a peak in Victoria, Australia *

The Horn (New Hampshire) The Horn is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is part of the Pilot Range of the White Mountains. The Horn is flanked to the southwest by the Bulge. The Horn stands within the watershed of the Upper Ammonoosuc Ri ...

, a peak in the northeastern United States

Music

* ''Horn'' (album), an album by Pharaoh Overlord * ''Horn'' (Apink album), 2022 * "The Horn", a song from the 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 ...

'' by Super Furry Animals * "The Horn", from the album '' Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam'', a comedy track by Derek and Clive

Slang

Telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits 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 efficiently the human voice, into e ...

, also known as "the horn" *

Two-way radio A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive radio waves (a transceiver), unlike a broadcast receiver which only receives content. It is an audio (sound) transceiver, a transmitter and receiver in one unit, used for bidirection ...

, also known as "the horn"

Other uses

Horn (Chinese constellation) The Horn mansion (角宿, pinyin: Jiǎo Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officia ...

, part of the European constellation Virgo *

Horn (diacritic) The horn ( vi, dấu móc 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 rare ...

, a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as ''o'' or ''u'' is to be pronounced unrounded *

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 * The knob-like appendage attached to the pommel of a

saddle The 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 k ...

Horn antenna A horn antenna or microwave horn is an antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam. Horns are widely used as antennas at UHF and microwave frequencies, above 300 MHz. They are ...

, a type of antenna shaped like a horn and also called "horn" *

Glacial horn 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 ...