hulls

Noun (1)

hull (plural hulls)

1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

   Synonyms:

   peel, husk, shell

2. Any covering.

Noun (2)

hull (plural hulls)

1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
   • 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...1627, Iohn Smith [i.e., John Smith], “How to Build a Ship with the Definitions of All the Principall Names of Euery Part of her Principall Timbers, also How They are Fixed One to Another, and the...

   Synonyms:

   fuselage

2. 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.
   • The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.

   Synonyms:

   affine hull, affine span, span

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