armor plate

Questions about armor plate

What does armor plate mean?

armor plate means "specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire".

What is another word for armor plate?

Close synonyms include armour plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armor plate a common word?

armor plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.