Meaning of Hull | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
2. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
3. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
4. A river in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, which flows into the Humber.
   countable, uncountable
5. Any covering.
6. 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.
7. The common name of Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
   countable, uncountable
8. Hull, Quebec: The central business district and oldest neighborhood of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
9. Any of various places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
10. An unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida.
    countable, uncountable
11. A city in Madison County, Georgia.
    countable, uncountable
12. A village in Pike County, Illinois.
    countable, uncountable
13. A city in Sioux County, Iowa.
    countable, uncountable
14. A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
    countable, uncountable
15. An unincorporated community in Emmons County, North Dakota.
    countable, uncountable
16. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Liberty County, Texas.
    countable, uncountable
17. An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
18. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
19. A town in Portage County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
20. A surname.
    countable

Equivalents

Examples

“VVhen you haue berthed or brought her [the ship] vp to the planks, vvhich are thoſe thicke timbers vvhich goeth fore and aft on each ſide, vvhereon doth lie the beames of the firſt Orlop, vvhich is the firſt floore to ſupport the plankes doth couer the Hovvle, thoſe are great croſſe timbers, that keepes the ſhip ſides aſunder, the maine beame is euer next the maine maſt, […]”

“Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find.”

“The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.”

“holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull”

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