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Look up cover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Cover may refer to:

• A covering:
  • A lid or mechanical seal, usually one that completely closes the object
  • Album cover (see also: CD and DVD packaging)
  • Book cover or magazine cover
  • Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package

• A concealment:
  • Cover (intelligence), the purported occupation or purpose of a spy
  • Undercover, disguising one's identity for the purposes of gaining the trust
  • Cover (military), a form of protection in combat
  • Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique
  • Mating of animals, e.g. a horse covers a mare
  • Incubation of eggs

• In entertainment:
  • Cover version, a new version of a previously recorded song
  • Cover band, a musical band that plays only cover versions
  • Cover (film), a 2007 film directed by Bill Duke

• In science:
  • Cover (topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of subsets of a set whose union is the whole set
  • A Covering space, in the theory of Riemann surfaces and topology
  • Cover (geology) or sedimentary cover, overlies a basement (geology) or crystalline basement

• In sports:
  • Cover, a fielding position in cricket
  • Cover 2, a class of defensive play in American Football

• Other uses:
  • Cover charge, an entry fee
  • Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of a contract for the receipt of goods
  • Cover (finance), repurchasing a short order made on the stock/equity, forex or futures markets
  • Cover (unit), an area approximately equal to 2698 square metres
  • Cover (database theory), an equivalent set of constraints in database theory

Covers may refer to:

• Covers (EP), an EP by The Autumns
• Covers (Placebo album), an album by Placebo
• Covers (Show of Hands album), an album by Show of Hands
• Covers (James Taylor album), a 2008 album by James Taylor

See also

• Coverall
• Cover up

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