Cover

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

• Cover (surname)
  • Franklin Cover (1928–2006), American actor
  • Robert Cover (1943–1986), American law professor, scholar, and activist
  • Thomas M. Cover (1938–2012), American scientist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

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

• Covers (Beni album), 2012
• Covers (Regine Velasquez album), 2004
• Covers (Placebo album), 2003
• Covers (Show of Hands album), 2000
• Covers (James Taylor album), 2008
• Covers (Fayray album), 2005
• Covers (Deftones album), 2011
• Covers, an album by Break of Reality

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

• Cover, an understudy in opera
• Cover band, a musical band that performs mostly cover versions
• Cover version, a new version of a previously released song

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)