WordNet
n. specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire [syn: armor plate, armour plate, plate armor, plate armour]
Usage examples of "armor plating".
If you were Hogan or Paddy White, or one of those other poor bastards had a big piece of armor plating, or a chair, or something suddenly pop out of their heads or ass.
Warden had already glimpsed the sleek limojet with its massive armor plating and steelglass windows.
I used the same general design, but I have a back seat installed in each vehicle and lightweight armor plating fitted to the doors and hood.
It obviously was a converted commercial tractor-trailer, with duralloy armor plating riveted in place and a forest of antennae on top.
Hands placed firmly at ten and two o'clock on the polished wooden spoke wheel, Chief Pilot Hodges gazed at the river ahead, his eyes squinting through the slits in the armor plating.
Over them, armor plating like thickened plates of chiton clung to the body, still emitting a warmth I could see in the cold drift of fog off the chilled flesh.
The guns perched behind steel-armor plating atop the main bridge temporarily ignored Fergus and concentratÂ.
The other missile scored a hit on shields already weakened by blaster fire, raising a cloud of debris amidships as the blast ripped into armor plating.
Some of the burns looked almost deep enough to pierce the armor plating.