Hull may refer to:

Structures

Chassis A chassis (, ; plural ''chassis'' from French châssis ) is the load-bearing framework of an artificial object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function. An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpart ...

, of an armored fighting vehicle *

Fuselage The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft t ...

, of an aircraft *

Hull (botany) Husk (or hull) in botany is the outer shell or coating of a seed. In the United States, the term husk often refers to the leafy outer covering of an ear of maize (corn) as it grows on the plant. Literally, a husk or hull includes the protective ...

, the outer covering of seeds *

Hull (watercraft) A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, d ...

, the body or frame of a ship *

Submarine hull A submarine hull has two major components, the ''light hull'' and the ''pressure hull''. The light hull (''casing'' in British usage) of a submarine is the outer non-watertight hull which provides a hydrodynamically efficient shape. The pressure ...

Mathematics

Affine hull In mathematics, the affine hull or affine span of a set ''S'' in Euclidean space R''n'' is the smallest affine set containing ''S'', or equivalently, the intersection of all affine sets containing ''S''. Here, an ''affine set'' may be defined ...

, in affine geometry *

Conical hull Given a finite number of vectors x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n in a real vector space, a conical combination, conical sum, or weighted sum''Convex Analysis and Minimization Algorithms'' by Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty, Claude Lemaréchal, 1993, pp. 101, 102/ ...

, in convex geometry *

Convex hull In geometry, the convex hull or convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it. The convex hull may be defined either as the intersection of all convex sets containing a given subset of a Euclidean space ...

, in convex geometry ** Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull) *

Holomorphically convex hull The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with complex-valued functions. The name of the field dealing with the properties of function of several complex variables is called several complex variable ...

, in complex analysis * Injective hull, of a module *

Linear hull In mathematics, the linear span (also called the linear hull or just span) of a set of vectors (from a vector space), denoted , pp. 29-30, §§ 2.5, 2.8 is defined as the set of all linear combinations of the vectors in . It can be characterize ...

, another name for the linear span * Skolem hull, of mathematical logic

Places

England

* Hull, the common name of Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire ** Hull City A.F.C., a football team ** Hull FC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city ** Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city ** Port of Hull ** University of Hull *

River Hull The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops of ...

, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Canada

Hull, Quebec Hull is the central business district and oldest neighbourhood of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa. As part of the Canadia ...

, a settlement opposite Ottawa, now part of the city of Gatineau ** Hull (provincial electoral district) ** Hull (federal electoral district), now named Hull—Aylmer

United States

* Hull, Florida * Hull, Georgia * Hull, Illinois * Hull, Iowa * Hull, Massachusetts * Hull, North Dakota * Hull, Texas * Hull, West Virginia * Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin *

Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin Hull is a town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,493 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Casimir and Jordan are located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the to ...

Other places

Hul, Nové Zámky District Hul ( hu, Hull) is a municipality and village in the Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia. History In history, historical records the village was first mentioned in 1290. Geography The village lies at an altitude of 1 ...

, Slovakia *

Hull Island (disambiguation) Hull Island may refer to: * Orona in the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati, and once known as Hull Island * Îles Maria, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, within the Austral Islands, and also formerly known as Hull Island * Hull Island ...

, several places

People

* List of people with surname Hull

Other uses

* Hull classification symbol (hull code or hull number), a system to identify ships * Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States * USS ''Hull'', any of four U.S. Navy ships *

Hull note The Hull note, officially the Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan, was the final proposal delivered to the Empire of Japan by the United States of America before the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1 ...

, the final U.S. proposal delivered to the Empire of Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbor