shell
noun
/ʃɛl/
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- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
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Schale
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- A hard external covering of an animal.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
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Schale,
Eierschale
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- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
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Granate
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- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
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Hülle
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- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
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Hülse
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- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
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Shell
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shelling
noun
/ˈʃɛlɪŋ/
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- An artillery bombardment.
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Bombardierung
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