Head (disambiguation)

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The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Head may refer specifically to a human head.

Head or Heads may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Business

• Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of skiing, snowboarding, swimming, tennis and other racket sports equipment including shoes
• Head Entertainment, a former British entertainment retailer
• Head Records, a British entertainment retailer

Computing

• head (Unix), a UNIX command
• <head>, an HTML document structure element
• HEAD, an HTTP request method
• Head, a reference to a commit object to a Repository

Maritime

• Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
• Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
• Head race or crew race, a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
• Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast

Science

• Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
• Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposit
• Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
• Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
• Head (hydrology), the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
• Headland, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
• High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
• Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
  • Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
  • Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe

Technology

• Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
• Head (vessel), an end cap on a pressure vessel
• Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
• Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
  • Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
• Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system

Titles

• Head coach, senior coach of an athletic team
• Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
• Head of government, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
• Head of mission, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
• Head of state, the most senior public representative of a state
• Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
• Head, a person who uses psychoactive drugs, such as a cokehead

Other uses

• Head (surname), including a list of people with that name
• The Head, Queensland, a locality in Australia
• Beer head, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
• Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
• Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
• Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
• Head, the flat end of a barrel
• Head, slang for oral sex
• Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
• Head, also called loop, a part of Thai typography

See also

• Headed (disambiguation)
• Header (disambiguation)
• Heading (disambiguation)
• Heads in heraldry
• All pages with titles beginning with head
• All pages with titles containing head

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