Elephant trunk

Elephant trunk denotes:

• the trunk of an elephant
• a flexible manipulator arm in industrial robotics
• in palaeography and in printer language a sweeping swell of a capital letter, see elephant trunk (typography)
• in astronomy a thread-like fraying of a gas nebula

See also:

• Elephant Trunk Nebula , an astronomical object

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.