Cover

Cover or covers may refer to:

Packaging

 * Another name for 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)

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 (Cat Power album), 2022
 * Covers, an album by Break of Reality

Extended plays

 * Covers (A Camp EP), 2009
 * 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 film directed by Bill Duke
 * Covers (film), an upcoming comedy film directed by Nisha Ganatra

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, science and technology

 * 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
 * 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

 * Protection from enemy fire - see, for example, infantry tactics
 * Cover or covering fire, also known as suppressive fire
 * A term for any type of uniform hat:
 * Campaign cover or campaign hat, a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat
 * Utility cover, the United States 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