Cornet may refer to: - Cornet, a brass instrument that closely resembles the trumpet:
- A cornett or cornetto, a Renaissance instrument made entirely from wood, with woodwind-style holes,
- A cornet (organ stop) (pronounced "cornay"), a composite stop on an organ consisting of the 8', 4', 2-2/3', 2', and 1-3/5' stops
[edit] Military - In military terminology, a troop of cavalry may also be called a cornet, from the now obsolete term for the Troop's standard (flag).
- Cornet, the 16th and 17th Century term for the small square flag carried by each Troop of Horse. The term was progressively replaced during the 18th Century by "standard".
- Cornet (military rank), a commissioned officer rank in cavalry troops, once the bearer of the Troop's flag or Cornet.
- Cornet, cornette or cornute[1]
- In maritime usage a term, now increasingly obsolete, a small triangular pennant or for a small, swallow-tailed flag, particularly a signal flag
- An alternative form of ‘guidon’, now obsolete, as a cavalry regiment's distinguishing flag
- 9M133 Kornet, a Russian anti-tank guided missile
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