Not to be confused with Canon.
A cannon is any large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a considerable distance.
Cannon can also refer to:
In business:
- Cannon Downriggers, a manufacturer of downriggers for fishing by trolling
- Cannon Mills Company, a textile conglomerate based out of Kannapolis, North Carolina that was formerly the world's largest distributor of textile products
- Cannon (ITT Corporation), a manufacturer of cables, switches and connectors
- Cannon (automobile), an automobile produced in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1902-06
In games:
- A billiards stroke in which the cue-ball is made to contact more than one object-ball
- Cannon Fodder (video game), a 1993 action computer and video game
In electronics:
- XLR connector, sometimes called a Cannon plug or Cannon connector
- D-subminiature connectors, sometimes called Cannon connectors
In the media:
- Cannon (TV series), a 1971-1976 American television crime drama starring William Conrad
- Cannon Films, a now-defunct motion picture studio owned by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus
- Stonington Cannon, a newspaper published by George Washington Dixon
In Music
- Canon (music)
- Cannons, a 2007 album recorded by INO Records artist Phil Wickham
In geography:
- Cannon Air Force Base, in the U.S. state of New Mexico
- Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA
- Cannon City, Minnesota, USA
- Cannon County, Tennessee, USA
- Cannon Falls, Minnesota, USA
- Cannon Falls Township, Minnesota, USA
- Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire, USA
- Cannon River, in the U.S. state of Minnesota
- Various places in London including:
- Cannon Township, Michigan, USA
- Cannon Township, Minnesota, USA
Other meanings:
- Cannon (surname), people named Cannon
- The cannon bone of a horse
- Cannon School, a private school in North Carolina
See also
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