Cover or covers may refer to:

Packaging

  • Another name for a lid
  • Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package
  • Album cover, the front of the packaging
  • Book cover or magazine cover
  • Book design
  • Back cover copy, part of copywriting
  • CD and DVD cover, CD and DVD packaging
  • Smartphone cover, a mobile phone accessory that protects a mobile phone

People

  • Cover (surname)

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 (The Smithereens album), 2018
  • Covers (Zemmoa album), 2018
  • Covers (Cat Power album), 2022
  • Covers, an album by Break of Reality

Extended plays

  • Covers (A Camp EP), 2009
  • Covers (Blessing Offor EP), 2024
  • Covers EP (Everything but the Girl), 1992
  • 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 version, a new version of a previously released song
  • Cover, an understudy in opera

Films

  • Cover (film), a 2007 American film by Bill Duke
  • The Cover (film), a 2021 Spanish film by Secun de la Rosa

Magazines

  • Cover Magazine (publication), a New York City arts monthly publication

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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)
  • Cover Corp., parent organization for VTuber idol company Hololive Production

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, a pair in the covering relation of a partially ordered set, or the greater element in such a pair
  • Cover, in database theory, an equivalent set of constraints
  • Covering system in number theory is a finite set of residue classes that cover all integers
  • Covering code in coding theory is a set of elements (codewords) such that every element of the space is within a fixed distance of some codeword.
  • Edge cover, a concept in graph theory.
  • Vertex cover, a concept in graph theory.

Science and technology

  • Land cover, physical material on the surface of the earth
  • Concrete cover, in engineering, distance between reinforcement and the outer surface of element
  • Sedimentary cover, in geology, overlies a basement or crystalline basement

Military

  • Defilade, physical barriers or terrain that offer concealment and protection from enemy fire
  • Force protection, in the form of surveillance, screening and/or fire support around a friendly troop's defensive perimeter
  • Suppressive fire, also known as covering fire
  • A term for any type of uniform hat:
  • Campaign cover or campaign hat, a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat
  • Utility cover, the United States Marine Corps cap

Sports

  • Cover (cricket), a region of the field with respect to the batsman in cricket
  • To cover, a term in sports betting regarding a game's point spread

Other uses

  • Cover letter, a letter of introduction accompanying another document
  • Cover, or covers, the top layer of bedding
  • Coverture or couverture, a doctrine in common law relating to a wife's legal status

See also

  • Covers 2 (disambiguation)
  • Slipcover, protection for a piece of upholstered furniture
  • Coverage (disambiguation)
  • Covering (disambiguation)
  • Uncover (disambiguation)
  • Uncovered (disambiguation)