Armour (disambiguation)

Armour or armor (American spelling) is protective clothing for combat. Other meanings include:

Military:

* Armoured forces, heavy cavalry, or tank units
* Vehicle armour, protecting armoured fighting vehicles or warships
* Belt armor of battleships Protection or Technology:

*Armour (zoology): external body protection developed by animals
*Armor (hydrology): beaches, stream or river beds which have significant rock or boulder occurrence
* "Armour Thyroid" is a thyroid extract used as a thyroid hormone supplement

People

* Philip Danforth Armour (1832-1901), meatpacker and businessman, founder of Armour and Company
* Andrew Watson Armour III (1908-1991), Armour and Company president, relative of Philip Danforth Armour
* Richard Armour (several people by the same name)

Things

* "Armor" (novel), by John Steakley
* Armour and Company, slaughterhouse and meat packers
* Armor for Sleep, a New Jersey band
* Armour, South Dakota, the county seat of Douglas County, South Dakota
* Armour Square Park, Chicago, Illinois [ [http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/3EDBD844-EC85-4630-8701-4217D869FA42.cfm Armour Square Park] ]
* Armour Mission, a charitable organization founded by Philip Danforth Armour [ [http://archives.iit.edu/exhibits/OtherBuildings/detail/ArmourMission.htm Armour Mission] ]
* Armour Institute of Technology (1893), merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940
* "Côtes-d'Armor" is Breton for "by the sea" and means the part of Brittany on or near the coast
* Hisako Ichiki, a Marvel Comics character and a member of the X-Men, is known by the codename Armor.

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