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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
United Kingdom
- Cannons (house), an 18th-century palace built for the Duke of Chandos in Stanmore
- Cannon Street, London
United States
Elsewhere
- Cape Cannon, Greenland
- Cannon (crater), on the Moon
Businesses
- Cannon (ITT Corporation), a manufacturer of cables, switches and connectors
- Cannon (automobile), an automobile produced from 1902 to 1906
- 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, 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 (band), an indie pop band from Los Angeles
- 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 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
- Ohio Cannon, a professional American football team in 1999
- Cannon, a British/Canadian term for a snooker or billiards shot
See also
- Canon (disambiguation)
- Cannon or XLR connector
- Cannon Lake (disambiguation)
- Cannons Creek (disambiguation)
- QAnon
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