Cover or covers may refer to:

Packaging

* Another name for a lid * Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package *

Album cover An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to either the printed paperboard covers typically used to package sets of and 78-r ...

, 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) Cover is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Byron Cover (born 1950), American science fiction author * Franklin Cover (1928–2006), American actor * Thomas M. Cover (1938–2012), American scientist * Robert Cover R ...

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 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 is a unit of measurement in the hospitality industry The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and drink service, event planning, theme parks, travel and tourism. It incl ...

* Cover Corp., parent organization for VTuber idol company Hololive Production

Deception and concealment

Cover (telecommunications) In telecommunications and tradecraft, cover is the technique of concealing or altering the characteristics of communications patterns for the purpose of denying an unauthorized receiver information that would be of value. The purpose of cover is ...

, 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) In abstract algebra, a cover is one instance of some mathematical structure mapping onto another instance, such as a group (trivially) covering a subgroup. This should not be confused with the concept of a cover in topology. When some object ''X'' ...

, the concept of an algebraic structure that maps onto another structure in structure-preserving fashion *

Cover (topology) In mathematics, and more particularly in set theory, a cover (or covering) of a set X is a collection of subsets of X whose union is all of X. More formally, if C = \lbrace U_\alpha : \alpha \in A \rbrace is an indexed family of subsets U_\alpha\ ...

, 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 Land cover is the physical material at the surface of Earth. Land covers include grass, asphalt, trees, bare ground, water, etc. Earth cover is the expression used by ecologist Frederick Edward Clements that has its closest modern equivalent being ...

, 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 A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, ...

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