Vehicle horn Several languages have either borrowed or transcribed the name into their lexicons. In Japanese, the word refers to car horns in general, and in verb form () refers to sounding the horn. This is also true in languages such as French (), Italian (), Dutch (), Russian (), Polish (), Spanish (), Romanian (), Czech (), Turkish (), Indonesian (), and Korean (). In countries applying the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, usage of audible warnings is limited, and allowed only in two cases: Vehicle horn A horn is a sound-making device that can be equipped to motor vehicles, buses,
Horn (acoustic) the instrument more difficult to play. Acoustic horns are found in nature in the form of the burrows constructed by male mole crickets to amplify their song. "Gryllotalpa vineae" digs a carefully smoothed burrow with no irregularities larger than 1 millimetre. Its song is loud enough to make the ground vibrate; its 3.5 milliwatts of mechanical power delivers a peak of 92 decibels at a distance of one metre. The song can be heard up to 600 metres away. Horn (acoustic) An acoustic horn or waveguide is a tapered sound guide designed to provide an acoustic impedance match between a