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Armour or armor (American spelling) can be used to refer protective clothing for combat. Other meanings include:

Military and Naval:

• Armored forces, heavy cavalry, or tank units — see armored warfare
• Vehicle armor, metal armored to protect fighting vehicles or warships
• The metal belt armor, deck armor, turret armor, and command citadel armor of battleship and cruisers

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" or "Armour brand medication" is a thyroid supplement made of desiccated thyroid extract from pigs

Places

• Armour, South Dakota
• Armour, Ontario

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
• Armor (magazine), journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch
• 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^[1]
• Armour Mission, a charitable organization founded by Philip Danforth Armour^[2]
• 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.
• Armored, a 2009 film directed by Nimrod Antal.

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