Armour (disambiguation)

Armour or armor (American spelling) has many meanings. They include

Protective Clothing

Personal Armor, protective clothing for combat.

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

• armor, ASCII Armor is a special text file (ASCII Armored file) with a file extension .asc used by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) to convert binary data into ASCII
• Armor (hydrology): beaches, stream or river beds which have significant rock or boulder occurrence
• Armour (zoology): external body protection developed by animals
• "Armour Thyroid" (or "Armour brand medication"), a thyroid supplement made of desiccated thyroid extract from pigs
• Riprap (also known as rock armour), rock used to protect coastlines and structures from erosion by the sea, rivers, or streams

Places

• Armour, South Dakota
• Armour, Ontario
• Armour Square Park, Chicago, Illinois
• Côtes-d'Armor is Breton for "by the sea" and means the part of Brittany on or near the coast

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 (1906–1989), American author and poet

Organizations

• Armour and Company, slaughterhouse and meat packers
• Armor for Sleep, a New Jersey band
• 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 culture

• Armor (novel), by John Steakley
• Armor (magazine), journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch
• Hisako Ichiki, a Marvel Comics character and a member of the X-Men, known by the codename Armor
• Armored (film), a 2009 film directed by Nimrod Antal.