Jacket (disambiguation)
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A jacket is a relatively tight-fitting garment for the upper body. In other contexts, the term typically refers to a tight-fitting covering, often for protective purposes, for example:
- Dust jacket, the detachable outer cover of a book
- Jacket matrix, a square matrix that is a generalization of the Hadamard matrix
- Jacket potato, a baked potato filled with other ingredients
- Jacketed vessel, a container designed for controlling the temperature of its contents
- Bullet jacket, the plating/covering of a bullet's core with metal to give it a higher velocity
- The supporting legs and lattice framework of an offshore fixed steel oil platform or wind turbine
- In paleontology, a field jacket is a plaster or similar covering to transport fragile fossils
As a proper name, Jacket can refer to:
- Jacket (software), the GPU engine for MATLAB
- Jacket (magazine), an online poetry magazine
- Jacket Lake, Nova Scotia, a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality
- The Jacket (2005), an American film directed by John Maybury
- The Jacket (book), a 2001 book by Andrew Clements
See also
- All pages with titles containing Jacket (disambiguation)
- Jack (disambiguation)
- Yellow jacket
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