Cover or covers may refer to:

Packaging

* Another name for a lid *

Cover (philately) In philately, the term cover pertains to the outside of an envelope or package with an address, typically with postage stamps that have been cancelled and is a term generally used among stamp and postal history collectors. The term does not inclu ...

, 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 Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "thoug ...

** 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 In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song. Originally, it referred to a version of a song relea ...

, a new version of a previously released song * Cover, an

understudy In theater, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to a ...

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), a communications concealment technique * Cover, something fake used in a

cover-up A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to :wikt:conceal, conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassment, embarrassing information. Research has distinguished personal cover-ups (covering up one's own ...

* 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_\alph ...

, 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, physical material on the surface of the earth *

Concrete cover Concrete cover, in reinforced concrete, is the least distance between the surface of embedded reinforcement and the outer surface of the concrete ( ACI 130). The concrete cover depth can be measured with a cover meter. Purpose of provision of co ...

, 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 Storey, floors of a building that are completely or partly below the storey, ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the Furnace (house heating), furnace, ...

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 Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds (or money-line) betting or parimutuel betting. ...

Other uses

* Cover letter, a letter of introduction accompanying another document * Cover, or covers, the top layer of bedding