Horn 41242 219832658 2008-06-17T01:57:15Z Sebastian scha. 6877720 corr wikilink {{wikt}} '''Horn''' may refer to: * [[Horn (anatomy)]], the pointed projection of the skin of various animals, as an organ or its material * [[Horn (surname)]] In '''music and sound''' * [[Horn (instrument)]], sometimes called a "French horn," a brass musical instrument constructed of coiled tubing * [[Horn section]] of a band or orchestra * [[Blowing horn]], winding horn or age-old rudimentary sound device * [[Horn (acoustic)]], an open-ended tapered sound-guide * [[horn speaker]], a loudspeaker * Bullhorn, or [[Megaphone]], a device used to amplify one's voice * [[Bukkehorn]], ancient Norwegian musical instrument * [[Train whistle]], also sometimes called a horn or a steam trumpet * [[Foghorn]], navigation aid for mariners * Car horn, or [[Klaxon]], also used on trains and ships In '''geography''' * [[Horn of Africa]], Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti * [[Cape Horn]], the southernmost point of South America * [[Horn, Austria]] * [[Horn (district)]] in Austria * [[Horn (Netherlands)]], a village in the municipality of Haelen * [[Horn, Rutland]], a small civil parish in England * [[Horn, Switzerland]] * Glacial horn, a sharp [[pyramidal peak]] on a mountain, created by glacial erosion * [[Horn, Germany]], a municipality in the district of Rhein-Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. * [[Horn, Sweden]] In '''science''' * [[Horn (telecommunications)]], an open-ended radio waveguide of increasing cross-sectional area * [[Horn (telescope)]], a stationary radio telescope * [[Horn Antenna]], constructed, to support Project Echo, and used in the discovery of Cosmic microwave background radiation * [[Horn clause]] in [[mathematical logic]]. In '''fiction and mythology''' *[[Gjallarhorn]], the sounding horn or ringing horn of the god Heimdall, used to announce Ragnarok *''[[King Horn]]'', a 13th century Middle English romance story. * [[Horn of Gondor]] carried by Boromir in the ''Lord Of The Rings'' * [[Horn (Chinese constellation)]], a constellation in Chinese astronomy, known as one of the Eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon * Hörn, another name for the goddess [[Freyja]] in Norse mythology. In '''slang usage''' * [[Hook 'em Horns]] is a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams * "Horn" is military jargon for a [[telephone]], as in "Get on the horn" * "Horns" is a shortened version of [[Texas Longhorns]], the sports teams of the University of Texas in Austin * "Devil horns" is a hand gesture, the [[Corna]], with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries, also used in heavy metal * "Horned" and variants can mean [[cuckold]]ed. * Horn, a baseball [[hat-trick#Baseball | Hat-trick]], when a player strikes out six times in one game. In '''other uses''' * [[Around the Horn]], ESPN sports program * [[Horn clause]], a term in formal logic * [[Drinking horn]], an ancient drinking vessel * [[Anointing]] horn, used for the unction at a coronation * [[Horn (diacritic)]], a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as ''o'' or ''u'' is to be pronounced unrounded * [[Horn-rimmed glasses]] * Horn, a [[smoking pipe]] shaped like a bull's horn or as a bent cone, as described in Sherlock Holmes stories * Horn of Plenty, or [[Cornucopia]], also known as the Horn of Amalthea ==See also== * [[Hoorn]], city in the Netherlands * [[Horne]], disambiguation page * [[Horny]], disambiguation page * [[Corne]], French word for horn {{disambig}} [[bs:Rog (čvor)]] [[br:Korn (digejañ)]] [[da:Horn]] [[de:Horn (Begriffsklärung)]] [[es:Cuerno (desambiguación)]] [[eo:Korno]] [[eu:Adar]] [[fr:Horn]] [[hr:Rog (razdvojba)]] [[lt:Ragas (reikšmės)]] [[nl:Horn]] [[ja:ホーン]] [[no:Horn]] [[sk:Horn]] [[fi:Horn]] [[vo:Horn]]