Cover

Cover or covers may refer to:

Media

• Album cover
• Book cover or magazine cover
• CD and DVD packaging
• Cover art, images and text on media covers
• Cover version, a new version of a previously recorded song
  • Cover band, a musical band that performs mostly cover versions
• An understudy in opera
• Cover (film), a 2007 film directed by Bill Duke

Albums

• Covers (Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly EP), 2009
• Covers (Franz Ferdinand EP), 2009
• Covers (Young Statues EP), 2012
• Cover (Tom Verlaine album), 1984
• Cover (Joan as Policewoman album), 2009
• Covered (album), a 2012 album by Macy Gray
• Covered (Robert Glasper album), a 2015 album by Robert Glasper
• Covers (Beni album), 2012
• Covers (Regine Velasquez album), 2004
• Covers (The Autumns album), 2001
• Covers (Placebo album), 2003
• Covers (Show of Hands album), 2000
• Covers (James Taylor album), 2008
• Covers (Fayray album), 2005
• Covers (A Camp album), 2009
• Covers (Deftones album)
• Covers, an album by Break of Reality

Science and technology

• A covering, usually one that completely closes the object
  • lid (container)
  • seal (mechanical)
• The outside of an object, not necessarily enclosing the object
  • Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package
• Protection
  • Cover system, a system of protection in video games
  • Cover (military), a form of protection in combat
• Engineering
  • Concrete cover, distance between reinforcement and the outer surface of element
• Geology
  • Sedimentary cover, in geology, overlies a basement or crystalline basement

Deception and concealment

• Official cover
• Non-official cover
• Something fake used in a cover-up
• Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique

Mathematics

• Cover (topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of subsets of a set whose union is the whole set
• 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
• Cover (algebra), the concept of an algebraic structure that maps onto another structure in structure-preserving fashion
• A pair in the covering relation of a partially ordered set, or the greater element in such a pair
• A covering space, in the theory of Riemann surfaces and topology
• A (universal / double), covering group, a covering space with group structure, common in theoretical physics
• Cover, an equivalent set of constraints in database theory

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

Sports

• Cover, a fielding position 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

Business

• Cover charge, an entry fee
• Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of a contract for the receipt of goods
• Cover (finance), repurchasing a short order made on the stock/equity, forex or futures markets
• Smartphone cover.

Military dress

• Cover, a United States Marine Corps term for any type of uniform hat, as in utility cover and campaign cover

Other uses

• Mating of animals, e.g. a stallion covers a mare
• The seating capacity for one person in a restaurant
• The top layer of bedding

See also

• All pages beginning with "Cover"
• All pages with titles containing Cover
• Covering (disambiguation)
• Cover story (disambiguation)
• Overall, a synonym for coverall
• Undercover
• Under the Covers (disambiguation)