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 or Heads may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

Songs

Other music

Film and television

Other arts

  • Head (Csaky), a 1913 Cubist sculpture by Joseph Csaky
  • Head (DC Comics)
    , a minor character in the fictional DC universe

Companies and brands

Computing

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
  • Sprinkler head
    , a component of a fire sprinkler system

Titles

Other uses

  • Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
  • The Head, Queensland, 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 fellatio
  • Heads, the
    obverse
    of a coin; as in "heads or tails"

See also