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A horn is a sound-making device installed on motor vehicles, trains, boats, and other types of vehicles. The sound it makes usually resembles a “honk” (older vehicles) or a “beep” (modern vehicles). The driver uses the horn to warn others of the vehicle's presence or approach, or to call attention to some hazard.
Awooga, or Aooga, the sound of an old-fashioned vehicle horn; Beep, a high-pitched signal; Beep, beep, 1929 word for a car horn; Ching, the sound of metal on metal; Clink, the sound of glass on glass; Fizz, sound of effervescence; Flutter, sound of rapid motion, e.g. aeroelastic flutter; Oom-pah, the rhythmical sound of a deep brass instrument ...
Beep, beep" is onomatopoeia representing a noise, generally of a pair of identical tones following one after the other, often generated by a machine or device such as a car horn. It is commonly associated with the Road Runner (commonly interpreted as "meep meep") in Looney Tunes cartoons featuring the speedy-yet- flightless bird and his ...
Applied to music, it gives the sound of an antique acoustic gramophone record player. It has been used in radio advertisements and popular music to give retro and often humorous effects. A recorded voice or music can be processed to give it a "megaphone" sound effect without using an actual megaphone, by audio recording decks and software.
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 metal diaphragm vibrated by an electromagnet, attached to a horn, a flaring duct to conduct the sound waves to the open air.
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