What does ARMOR mean?

Definitions for ARMOR
ˈɑr mərar·mor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. armor, armournoun

    protective covering made of metal and used in combat

  2. armor, armournoun

    a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles

  3. armor, armourverb

    tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant

  4. armor, armourverb

    equip with armor

Wiktionary

  1. armornoun

    A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.

  2. armornoun

    A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.

  3. armornoun

    Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.

  4. armornoun

    A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.

  5. armornoun

    A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.

  6. armorverb

    To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.

  7. armorverb

    To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

  8. Etymology: From armour, from armure, from armure, from armatura.

Wikipedia

  1. armor

    ARMOR is the professional journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch, published by the Chief of Armor at Fort Benning, Georgia, training center for the Army's tank and cavalry forces (United States Army Armor School). ARMOR magazine is the U.S. Army's oldest professional journal, founded by U.S. Cavalry officers in 1888, and originally titled as The Cavalry Journal.

ChatGPT

  1. armor

    Armor is a protective covering that is used to prevent damage or harm from being inflicted to an object, individual, or vehicle by direct contact or from projectiles, usually during combat, or from environmental hazards. Armor can be personal such as worn by soldiers or animals, or designed for vehicles, ships, or aircrafts. It can range from simple clothing to complex layered protection.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Armornoun

    defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle

  2. Armornoun

    steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery

  3. Etymology: [OE. armure, fr. F. armure, OF. armeure, fr. L. armatura. See Armature.]

Wikidata

  1. Armor

    Armor is a fictional character who exists in Marvel Comics' shared universe, the Marvel Universe. She is a mutant Japanese teenager who is enrolled at the Xavier Institute who retains her powers after the events of Decimation. She first appeared in Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #4.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. armor

    Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one’s person in battle. In English statutes, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statutes of armor directed what arms every man should provide. Armor has also been extensively used in England in plating important fortifications as those of Portsmouth, and also in Germany for the forts along the frontier.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ARMOR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Armor is ranked #27452 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Armor surname appeared 878 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Armor.

    74.1% or 651 total occurrences were White.
    16.8% or 148 total occurrences were Black.
    3.8% or 34 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.8% or 25 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARMOR in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARMOR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of ARMOR in a Sentence

  1. Kurt Vonnegut:

    Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

  2. Kara Ladd:

    I can’t wait! when else am I going to be able to rock a blond wig one day and a brunette one the next? Wigs are my armor. They help me power through the day.

  3. Wen Yang:

    Such lightweight and tough materials like fish scales are the sexy topics that materials scientists are pursuing, it is true that the natural armor is similar to artificial body armor because of the similar scale overlapping system. However, the natural armor such as these fish scales is tough and much lighter, without impeding body flexibility and locomotion.

  4. Jason Redman:

    Myself and other teammates were all shot up. I was hit eight times between the body and body armor. I took a round directly to the face and was pinned down, we called rounds directly on our position and miraculously survived. And fast forward about 96 hours from that moment. I found myself in a hospital bed in Bethesda.

  5. Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee:

    We can't have this hole in our armor, simply because we feel that we have to establish it for the past, we need to be honest with our past, just as I was trying to be honest with my own reality.

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