Armour (disambiguation)
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Armour or armor (American spelling) can be used to refer protective clothing for combat. Other meanings include:
Military and Naval:
- Armoured forces, heavy cavalry, or tank units — see armoured warfare
- Vehicle armour, metal armored to protect fighting vehicles or warships
- The metal belt armour, deck armor, turret armor, and command citadel armor of battleship and cruisers
Protection or Technology:
- Armour (zoology): external body protection developed by animals
- Armor (hydrology): beaches, stream or river beds which have significant rock or boulder occurrence
- "Armour Thyroid" or "Armour brand medication" is a thyroid supplement made of desiccated thyroid extract from pigs
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[edit] People
- Philip Danforth Armour (1832–1901), meatpacker and businessman, founder of Armour and Company
- Andrew Watson Armour III (1908–1991), Armour and Company president, relative of Philip Danforth Armour
- Richard Armour (several people by the same name)
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- Armor (novel), by John Steakley
- Armor (magazine), journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch
- Armour and Company, slaughterhouse and meat packers
- Armor for Sleep, a New Jersey band
- Armour, South Dakota, the county seat of Douglas County, South Dakota
- Armour Square Park, Chicago, Illinois[1]
- Armour Mission, a charitable organization founded by Philip Danforth Armour[2]
- Armour Institute of Technology (1893), merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940
- Côtes-d'Armor is Breton for "by the sea" and means the part of Brittany on or near the coast
- Hisako Ichiki, a Marvel Comics character and a member of the X-Men, is known by the codename Armor.
- Armor is a comic book off Continuity Comics
- Armored, a 2009 film directed by Nimrod Antal.
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