Vault may refer to: *

Jumping Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and ...

, the act of propelling oneself upwards

Architecture

Vault (architecture) In architecture, a vault (French ''voûte'', from Italian ''volta'') is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof. As in building an arch, a temporary support is needed while ring ...

, an arched form above an enclosed space * Bank vault, a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored *

Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffi ...

, a protective coffin enclosure *

Burial vault (tomb) A burial vault is a structural stone or brick-lined underground tomb or 'burial chamber' for the interment of a single body or multiple bodies underground. The main difference between entombment in a subterranean vault and a traditional in-groun ...

, an underground tomb *

Utility vault A utility vault is an underground room providing access to subterranean public utility equipment, such as valves for water or natural gas pipes, or switchgear for electrical or telecommunications equipment. A vault is often accessible directly fr ...

, an underground storage area accessed by a maintenance hole * Film vault, in

film preservation Film preservation, or film restoration, describes a series of ongoing efforts among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images they contain. In the wide ...

, a climate-controlled storage facility for films *

Pub A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century, to differentiate private ho ...

vault, a working men's bar in northern England pubs

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Vault (Marvel Comics), a prison for super-villains in the Marvel Comics universe * Vaults (''Fallout''), underground nuclear blast shelters in the ''Fallout'' video game series * ''Vault'' (sculpture), a sculpture by Ron Robertson-Swann * ''Vault'' (film), a 2019 film based on the 1975 Bonded Vault heist * "Vault" (''Due South''), a 1995 television episode

Music

* Vaults (band), a music group from London * Vault, former drummer for the band Dark Lunacy * '' Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980–1995)'', an album * "Vault", a song by Marnie Stern from '' This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That'' * "Vault", a song by

Pendulum A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate i ...

Brands and enterprises

* Vault (drink), a discontinued soft drink made by the Coca-Cola Company from 2005 to 2011 * Vault.com (formerly Vault Reports), a recruitment company founded by Mark Oldman

Computing and technology

Vault (revision control system) Vault is a commercial, proprietary version control system by SourceGear LLC which markets its product as a replacement for Microsoft's Visual Source Safe. Vault uses Microsoft SQL Server as a back end database and provides atomic commits to the v ...

, made by SourceGear * Vault, a cross-platform password manager and authentication tool maintained by

HashiCorp HashiCorp, Inc. is an American software company with a freemium business model based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides tools and products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and co ...

* Autodesk Vault, a data management tool from Autodesk * Microsoft HealthVault, a web-based personal health record

Mathematics and science

Vault (organelle) The vault or vault cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein is a eukaryotic organelle (a structure in the cells of multicellular organisms) whose function is not yet fully understood. Discovered and isolated by Nancy Kedersha and Leonard Rome in 1986, vau ...

, a ribonucleoprotein found in biological cells * Vault, in mathematics, a bisected bicylinder Steinmetz solid *

Cranial vault The cranial vault is the space in the skull within the neurocranium, occupied by the brain. Development In humans, the cranial vault is imperfectly composed in newborns, to allow the large human head to pass through the birth canal. During bir ...

, a space in the skull within the neurocranium *

Vaginal vault The vaginal vault is the expanded region of the vaginal canal at the internal end of the vagina. Prolapse The vaginal vault may prolapse after a hysterectomy, as there is no uterus supporting the interior end of the vagina. ''Colposacropexy'' i ...

, an expanded part of the vaginal canal

Sports

Vault (gymnastics) The vault is an artistic gymnastics maneuver typically performed on a pommel horse or a vaulting table. Both male and female gymnasts perform the vault. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is VT. The apparatus German ...

, an artistic gymnastics apparatus * Vault (parkour), a movement to get past an obstacle quickly and efficiently *

Equestrian vaulting Equestrian vaulting, or simply vaulting, is most often described as gymnastics and dance on horseback, which can be practiced both competitively or non-competitively. Vaulting has a history as an equestrian act at circuses, but its origins stre ...

, a sport that combines gymnastics and dance on a moving horse *

Pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a #bar, bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ...

, an athletics event

Other uses

Svalbard Global Seed Vault The Svalbard Global Seed Vault () is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds fro ...

(or Doomsday Vault), a secure seed bank in Norway * Vault Beach (also Bow Beach), Cornwall, England, UK * Vault Comics, an American comic book publisher