Armour (disambiguation)

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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

Protection or Technology:

• Armour (zoology): external body protection developed by animals
• Armor (hydrology): beaches, stream or river beds which have significant rock or boulder occurrence
• Armour Thyroid is a thyroid extract used as a thyroid hormone supplement

People

• Philip Danforth Armour (1832-1901), meatpacker and businessman
• Richard Armour (several people by the same name)

Other:

• Armor (novel), by John Steakley
• Armour and Company, slaughterhouse and meat packers
• Armor for Sleep, a New Jersey band
• Armour, South Dakota, the county seat of Douglas County, South Dakota
• Armour Square Park, Chicago, Illinois^[1]
• Armour Mission, a charitable organization founded by Philip Danforth Armour^[2]
• Armour Institute of Technology (1893), merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940

• "Côtes-d'Armor" is Breton for "by the sea" and means the part of Brittany on or near the coast
• Hisako Ichiki, a Marvel Comics character and a member of the X-Men, is known by the codename Armor.