armour plate

British  

noun

1. a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc

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Example Sentences

Both Héctor and Julio were wearing body armour, 14kg of Kevlar and armour plate.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

“I was lucky to be safe and capture the visual of one of the rockets hitting the armour plate overhead,” he tweeted Tuesday.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

Big black paisleys pieced together like a children's jumbo jigsaw into a faux armour plate?

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2014

Forts can be strengthened to almost any extent, and protected by earthworks of all kinds, but there is a limit to the thickness and weight of the armour plate with which ships can be clad.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by Parrott, James Edward

Processes for hardening steel, as the "Harveyized" steel, have given rise to a contest between "irresistible" projectiles and "impenetrable" armour plate.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry