Horn

Horn may refer to:

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

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

• Horn (instrument), a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form
  • The brass and woodwind musicians in a band are sometimes referred to collectively as the horn section
• Drinking horn, an ancient drinking vessel
• Horn (Chinese constellation), a constellation in Chinese astronomy
• Glacial horn, a sharp mountain peak created by glacial erosion
• 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
• Horn (telescope), a stationary radio telescope
• Horn (diacritic), a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as o or u is to be pronounced unrounded
• Devil horns (Hook 'em Horns), a hand gesture variously expressing Satanism, cuckoldry or support for the Texas Longhorns
• Horn: telephone - alleged military jargon for telephone.

Horn can refer to one of the following places:

• Horn, Austria
• Horn, Switzerland
• Horn, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Haelen
  • Horne, a small historic county of the Holy Roman Empire associated with the village
• Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America

Horn is also a surname:

• Dimitris Horn (1921-1998), famous Greek actor
• Alfred Horn (1918–2001), American mathematician
  • Horn clause is a term in formal logic named after him
• Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1994–1998
• Alfred Aloysius Trader Horn, an African trader during the Scramble for Africa
• Frederik Winkel Horn (1845–1898), Danish writer and translator
• Frederik Winkel-Horn (1756–1837), Danish writer
• The Horn (family) family in Finland and Sweden
  • Count Gustaf Horn (1592–1657), Finnish commander of Sweden-Finland in the Thirty Years' War
  • Count Arvid Horn (1664–1742), Finnish statesman of Sweden-Finland

See also

• Horn of Plenty refers to the Cornucopia, and the Black chanterelle (craterella cornucopioides) mushroom
• horny