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• Armour — (or armor) is protective covering, most commonly manufactured from metals, to prevent damage from being inflicted to an individual or a vehicle through use of direct contact weapons or projectiles, usually during combat. While early armour tended …   Wikipedia

• Armour (disambiguation) — Armour or armor (American spelling) is protective clothing for combat. Other meanings include:Military:* Armoured forces, heavy cavalry, or tank units * Vehicle armour, protecting armoured fighting vehicles or warships * Belt armor of battleships …   Wikipedia

• armour — (US armor) ► NOUN 1) the metal coverings formerly worn to protect the body in battle. 2) (also armour plate) the tough metal layer covering a military vehicle or ship. 3) military vehicles collectively. 4) the protective layer or shell of some… …   English terms dictionary

• armour — /ahr meuhr/, n. Chiefly Brit. armor. Usage. See our. * * * or body armour Protective clothing that can shield the wearer from weapons and projectiles. By extension, armour is also protective covering for animals, vehicles, and so on. Prehistoric… …   Universalium

• Armour — /ahr meuhr/, n. Philip Danforth /dan fawrth, fohrth/, 1832 1901, U.S. meat packing industrialist. * * * or body armour Protective clothing that can shield the wearer from weapons and projectiles. By extension, armour is also protective covering… …   Universalium

• armour — [13] Armour comes ultimately from Latin armātūra ‘armour, equipment’, a derivative of the verb armāre ‘arm’ (the direct English borrowing armature [15] originally meant ‘armour’ or ‘weapons’, but the ‘protective’ notion of armour led to its… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• armour — [13] Armour comes ultimately from Latin armātūra ‘armour, equipment’, a derivative of the verb armāre ‘arm’ (the direct English borrowing armature [15] originally meant ‘armour’ or ‘weapons’, but the ‘protective’ notion of armour led to its… …   Word origins

• Spaced armour — Armour with two or more plates spaced a distance apart, called spaced armour, when sloped reduces the penetrating power of bullets and solid shot as after penetrating each plate they tend to tumble, deflect, deform, or disintegrate, when not… …   Wikipedia

• armour — (BrE) (AmE armor) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ full, heavy, thick ▪ light ▪ body ▪ police officers in full body armour …   Collocations dictionary

• armour — /ˈamə / (say ahmuh) noun 1. defensive equipment; any covering worn as a protection against offensive weapons. 2. a metallic sheathing or protective covering, especially metal plates used on warships, armoured vehicles, aeroplanes, and… …  

• armour — n. & v. (US armor) n. 1 a defensive covering, usu. of metal, formerly worn to protect the body in fighting. 2 a (in full armour plate) a protective metal covering for an armed vehicle, ship, etc. b armoured fighting vehicles collectively. 3 a… …   Useful english dictionary