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 light Horn light "Horn light" is the term used in American and Canadian fire alarm systems to describe the annunciators used to notify the occupants of a building that an alarm condition exists and at least that area of the building should be promptly evacuated. The device emits a very loud noise and also uses a xenon strobe light to call attention to itself. Older horn lights were "unsupervised". These devices, when powered by a direct current voltage, simply sounded and flashed for as long as the voltage was present. Newer horn lights are supervised; these can separately annunciate and flash