Pellets are small particles typically created by compressing an original material.
Pellet or pellets may refer to:
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Alain Pellet
Alain Pellet (born 2 January 1947) is a French lawyer who teaches international law and international economic law at the Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense. He was director of the university's Centre de Droit International (CED ...
(born 1947), French lawyer
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Gustave Pellet
Gustave Pellet (1859–1919) was a French publisher of art. He is best known for publishing prints of erotic artworks by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Louis Legrand.
Life and work
Gustave Jean Baptiste Xavier Pellet was born to a wealthy family. ...
(1859–1919), French publisher of art
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Laurent Pellet
Laurent Pellet (born 31 July 1970) is a Swiss judoka. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially ...
(born 1970), Swiss judoka
Other uses
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Pellet (ornithology)
A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate. The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestible plant mat ...
, a round ball of undigested matter that some bird species regurgitate
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Pellets (petrology)
Pellets are small spherical to ovoid or rod-shaped grains that are common component of many limestones. They are typically 0.03 to 0.3 mm long and composed of carbonate mud (micrite). Their most common size is 0.04 to 0.08 mm. Pellets ...
, a form of carbonate sedimentary structure found in limestones
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Pellet (software)
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for vario ...
, an open-source Java OWL DL reasoner
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Pellet (air gun)
A pellet is a non-spherical projectile designed to be shot from an air gun, and an airgun that shoots such pellets is commonly known as a pellet gun. Air gun pellets differ from bullets and shot used in firearms in terms of the pressures encounter ...
, non-spherical projectiles fired from air guns
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Shot (pellet)
Shot is a collective term for small spheres or pellets, often made of lead. These were the original projectiles for shotguns and are still fired primarily from shotguns and less commonly from riot guns and grenade launchers, although shot shells ...
, projectiles for shotguns or other weapons
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Pellet stove
A pellet stove is a stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets to create a source of heat for residential and sometimes industrial spaces. By steadily feeding fuel from a storage container (hopper) into a burn pot area, it produces a con ...
, a stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets
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William Pellett
William Pellett (7 July 1809 – date of death unknown) was an English cricketer. Pellett's batting (cricket), batting and bowling (cricket), bowling styles are unknown. He was born at Duncton, Sussex.
Pellett made his first-class cricke ...
(1809 – unknown), English cricketer
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