Armour (disambiguation)
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Armour (British spelling) or Armor (American spelling) is protective covering.
The terms Armour or Armor may also refer to:
Military and naval
- An armoured fighting vehicle
- Vehicle armour, protection for vehicles or warships
- The metal belt armour, deck armor, turret armor, and command citadel armor of battleship and cruisers
- Personal armor, protection for individuals
- Armor-piercing shot and shell, munitions designed to penetrate armor
Protection or technology
- ARMOR Doppler Weather Radar
- ASCII Armor, term relating to binary-to-text encoding
- Armor (hydrology), beaches, stream or river beds which have significant rock or boulder occurrence
- Armour (anatomy), anatomical body protection
- Armour Thyroid (or Armour brand medication), a thyroid supplement made of desiccated thyroid extract from pigs
Places
- Armour, Nebraska, an extinct town in Pawnee County
- Armour, South Dakota, a city in and the county seat of Douglas County
- Armour, Ontario, a township
- Côtes-d'Armor is Breton for "by the sea" and means the part of Brittany on or near the coast
- Armorica, an old name for Brittany, France
People
Organizations
- Armour and Company, slaughterhouse and meat packers
- Armour Mission, a charitable organization founded by Philip Danforth Armour
- Armour Institute of Technology (1893), merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940
Media and entertainment
- Armor (novel), by John Steakley
- Armor (magazine), journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch
- Armor (comics), Marvel Comics character
- Armored (film), 2009, directed by Nimrod Antal
- Armor (album), by Janus
- Armor, a song by Ronnie Radke from the 2014 mixtape Watch Me
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