armour plate

Questions about armour plate

What does armour plate mean?

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

What is another word for armour plate?

Close synonyms include armor 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 armour plate a common word?

armour 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.