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Cover or covers may refer to:

Packaging, science and technology

  • A covering, usually - but not necessarily - one that completely closes the object
    • Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package
    • Housing (engineering), an exterior case or enclosure used to protect an interior mechanism
    • Lid (container)
    • Media covers
      • Album cover, the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product
      • Book cover or magazine cover
      • CD and DVD cover, CD and DVD packaging
      • Cover art, images and text on media covers
    • Seal (mechanical), a device that helps join systems or mechanisms together by preventing leakage
    • Smartphone cover, a mobile phone accessory that protects a mobile phone
  • Concrete cover, in engineering, distance between reinforcement and the outer surface of element
  • Sedimentary cover, in geology, overlies a basement or crystalline basement

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

When a song of musician A is subsequently performed by musician B, musician B is "covering" Musician A's song.

Albums

Cover
  • Cover (Tom Verlaine album), 1984
  • Cover (Joan as Policewoman album), 2009
Covered
  • Covered (Cold Chisel album), 2011
  • Covered (Macy Gray album), 2012
  • Covered (Robert Glasper album), 2015
Covers

Extended plays

  • Covers (A Camp EP), 2009
  • Covers (Franz Ferdinand EP), 2009
  • Covers (Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly EP), 2009
  • Covers (The Autumns EP), 2001
  • Covers (Young Statues EP), 2012

Other uses in music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Cover (film), a 2007 film directed by Bill Duke
  • Covers (film), an upcoming comedy film directed by Nisha Ganatra
  • Cover system, a system of protection in video games
  • Cover Magazine (publication), a New York City arts monthly publication
  • Cover Corp., parent organization for VTuber idol company Hololive Production

Business

  • Cover (finance), repurchasing a short order made on the stock/equity, forex or futures markets
  • Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of a contract for the receipt of goods
  • Cover charge, an entry fee
  • Cover (hospitality)
  • First day cover ("FDC" also called a first day of issue), a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day of issue

Deception and concealment

  • Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique
  • Cover, something fake used in a cover-up
  • Non-official cover, the identity assumed by an operative who takes a covert role in an organization without official ties to the government
  • Official cover, the identity assumed by an operative who takes a position in an organization with diplomatic ties

Mathematics

  • Cover (algebra), the concept of an algebraic structure that maps onto another structure in structure-preserving fashion
  • Cover (topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of sets whose union contains each set as a subset
  • Cover, in database theory, an equivalent set of constraints
  • Cover, a pair in the covering relation of a partially ordered set, or the greater element in such a pair
  • Covering group (universal / double), a covering space with group structure, common in theoretical physics
  • Covering space, in the theory of Riemann surfaces and topology
  • Good cover (algebraic topology), an open topological cover such that all open sets in the cover and all intersections of finitely many open sets are contractible

Military

  • Cover (military), anything which is capable of physically protecting an individual from enemy fire
  • Cover: Uniform, a military term for any type of uniform hat, as in:
    • Campaign cover or campaign hat, a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat, with a high crown, pinched symmetrically at the four corners
    • Utility cover also known as the utility cap and eight-pointed cover, the United States Marine Corps cap, worn with their utility uniform

Sports

  • Cover (cricket), a region of the field with respect to the batsman in cricket
  • Cover 2, a class of defensive play in American football
  • To cover, in sports betting a favorite to win by more than the game's point spread

Other uses

  • Cover, or covers, the top layer of bedding
  • Cover, to mate animals, e.g., a stallion covers a mare
  • Cover, the seating capacity for one person in a restaurant
  • Slipcover, protective cover that may be slipped off and on a piece of upholstered furniture

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Cover
  • All pages with titles containing Cover
  • Casing (disambiguation)
  • Couverture (disambiguation)
  • Coverage (disambiguation)
  • Covering (disambiguation)
  • Enclosure (disambiguation)
  • Faceplate (disambiguation)
  • Uncover (disambiguation)
  • Uncovered (disambiguation)
  • Wrap (disambiguation)
  • Wraparound (disambiguation)
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