The process of covering or protecting something with armor plating or defensive material; also, armor collectively or the art of making armor.
From 'armor' with the suffix '-ing,' which creates gerunds (noun forms of verbs) or describes ongoing actions. 'Armor' itself comes from Old French 'armure,' from Latin 'armatura.'
Modern ships and tanks still use 'armoring' principles developed in the 1400s—engineers continuously play a chess game of thicker armor versus more powerful weapons, an arms race as old as metallurgy itself!
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