hull

/hʌl/ · noun

Meaning

The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Any covering.
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
(of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

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