Blanket (disambiguation)
A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding material.
Blanket or blankets may also refer to:
Types of blanket
Business
- Blanket loan, a type of loan used to fund the purchase of more than one piece of real property
- Blanket order, a purchase order for multiple delivery dates, used when there is a recurring need for expendable goods
Government and politics
- Blanket primary, the voting system employed in the United States
- Blanket protest, a Northern Irish prison protest held in the Maze prison by republican prisoners
- Blanketeers, a nickname given to the operatives involved in a public protest in 1817 England
Places
Plants and animals
- Blanket (grape), another name for the French wine grape Clairette blanche
- Blanket octopus, a species of octopus found in Northern Australia
- Gaillardia pulchella (also called: firewheel, Indian blanket, Indian blanketflower, or sundance), a short-lived annual plant native to the United States
Earth science
- Blanket bog, a bog lying over much of the countryside, formed in cool and very wet climates
- Ejecta blanket, in geology, a layer of ejected material that surrounds an impact crater
Other uses
- Blanket, nickname of Michael Jackson's third child
- Blanket fort, a childhood construction of blankets, bed sheets, pillows, and sofa cushions
- Blanket statement, a hasty generalization
- Blanket stitch, a sewing stitch, typically used to edge blankets
- Blanketing, interference caused by strong radio signals
- Breeding blanket, a key part of many proposed fusion reactor designs
- Markov blanket, a concept in machine learning
- Pigs in blankets, a bacon-wrapped sausage popular in the UK and Ireland
- Pigs in a blanket, a pastry-wrapped hot dog popular in the United States
- Smallpox blanket, an early biological warfare agent used against American Indians
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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