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"Front cover" redirects here. For the 2015 film, see Front Cover.

Cover or covers may refer to:

Packaging

• 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

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, a finite set of residue classes that cover all integers
• Covering code in coding theory, 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 US 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Cover
• All pages with titles containing Cover
• Covers 2 (disambiguation)
• Slipcover, protection for a piece of upholstered furniture
• Coverage (disambiguation)
• Covering (disambiguation)
• Uncover (disambiguation)
• Uncovered (disambiguation)