Cannon (disambiguation)

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A cannon is any large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a considerable distance. It can also refer to the device propelling a human cannonball.

Cannon may also refer to:

Places

Businesses

• Cannon (ITT Corporation), a manufacturer of cables, switches and connectors
• Cannon (automobile), an automobile produced from 1902–06
• Cannon Mills, a textile manufacturer
• Cannon Films, a now-defunct motion picture studio
• CannonDesign, an architectural firm founded in 1945

Media

• Cannon (TV series), a 1971–1976 American TV series
• Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon, a comic book
• Cannon (WildStorm Productions), a comic book character from Wildstorm
• Cannon, a 1971 premier TV movie starring William Conrad

Music

• Il Cannone Guarnerius, The Cannon, violin made by Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri in 1743
• Cannon depth drums, tom-tom and bass drums deeper than power depth
• Cannon (band), a post rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, active between 1999 and 2003
• Cannons (album), a 2007 album recorded by INO Records artist Phil Wickham
• "Cannon", a 1995 single by American pop/rock band Self from Subliminal Plastic Motives
• "Cannon", a song by the White Stripes from their self-titled album
• "Cannons", a song by Youth Lagoon from his debut album The Year of Hibernation

Other uses

• Cannon (surname)
• Cannon, a British/Canadian term for a snooker or billiards shot
• Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, US
• Cannon bone, a bone in the forelimb of a horse
• Cannon School, a private school in North Carolina, US
• Great Cannon, a cyberweapon used by the Chinese government
• Old Jeremiah, British naval gun, affectionately referred to as The Cannon
• USS Cannon (DE-99), a 1943 World War II United States destroyer
• Hail cannon, a shock wave generator claimed to disrupt the formation of hailstones in the atmosphere
• The Cannons, a school/Ben's hometown baseball team on Cartoon Network's Ben 10 episode The Unnaturals.

See also

• Canon (disambiguation)
• Cannon or XLR connector
• Western canon, denotes a body of works traditionally accepted by Western scholars as important in shaping Western culture
• Cannon Lake (disambiguation)
• Cannons Creek (disambiguation)