# 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)

## 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 (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 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, 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
* Covering system in number theory is a finite set of residue classes that cover all integers
* 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

* 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 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