Sealing may refer to:
Processes
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Seal (emblem)
A seal is a device for making an impression in Sealing wax, wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an Paper embossing, embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made. The original purpose was to authenticate a document, or ...
, applying a seal to a document for authentication
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Sealing wax
Sealing wax is a wax material of a seal (emblem), seal which, after melting, hardens quickly (to paper, parchment, ribbons and wire, and other material), forming a bond that is difficult to break without noticeable tampering. Wax is used to verify ...
, a wax material of a seal which, after melting, hardens quickly
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Duct sealing, the sealing of leaks in air ducts
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Induction sealing
Induction sealing is the process of bonding thermoplastic materials by induction heating. This involves controlled heating an electrically conducting object (usually aluminum foil) by electromagnetic induction, through heat generated in the objec ...
, method of heating a metal disk to seal a cap or top on a container
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Porosity sealing, the process of filling a porous substrate to make it airtight
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Record sealing
Record sealing is the process of making public records inaccessible to the public.
In many cases, a person with a sealed record gains the legal right to deny or not acknowledge anything to do with the arrest and the legal proceedings from the ca ...
, the practice of making court records confidential
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Stone sealing
Stone sealing is the application of a surface treatment to products constructed of natural stone to retard staining and corrosion. All bulk natural stone is riddled with interconnected capillary channels that permit penetration by liquids and gase ...
, the application of a surface treatment to products constructed of natural stone
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Sealing compound
Sealant is a substance used to block the passage of fluids through openings in materials, a type of mechanical seal. In building construction ''sealant'' is sometimes synonymous with ''caulk'' (especially if acrylic latex or polyurethane based ...
, sealant, used to block the passage of fluids
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Searing
Searing or pan searing is a technique used in grilling, baking, braising, roasting, sautéing, and the like, in which the surface of the food (usually meat such as beef, poultry, pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the ...
meat (and other foods), commonly but erroneously referred to as 'sealing in the juices' etc.
Religion
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Sealing (Mormonism)
Sealing is an ordinance (ritual) performed in Latter Day Saint temples by a person holding the sealing authority. The purpose of this ordinance is to seal familial relationships, making possible the existence of family relationships throughout ...
, a ritual intended to make family relationships permanent even after death
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Sealing power In Mormonism, the sealing power is the means whereby all "covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections, associations, or expectations" attain "efficacy, virtue, or force in and after the resurrection from the dead ...
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Sealing room
In temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), an ordinance room is a room where the ceremony known as the '' Endowment'' is administered, as well as other ordinances such as Sealings. Some temples perform a progr ...
, an ordinance room
Other
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Sealing the Tomb
''Sealing the Tomb'' is a great altarpiece triptych by William Hogarth in the English city of Bristol. It was commissioned for St Mary Redcliffe in 1755. In the 19th century attempts were made to sell it, but it was given to the Bristol Fine Ar ...
'', altarpiece triptych by William Hogarth in the English city of Bristol
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Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of Pinniped, seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Russia, the United States (above the Arctic Circle ...
, personal or commercial hunting of seals
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Seal (disambiguation)
Seal may refer to any of the following:
Common uses
* Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly:
** Earless seal, also called "true seal"
** Fur seal
** Eared seal
* Seal ( ...
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Seale (disambiguation) Seale may refer to:
* Seale, Alabama, an unincorporated community in the United States
*Seale, Surrey, a village in England
* Seale Hayne College, military hospital in Ivybridge, Devon, UK
Seale is also a surname:
* Seale Baronets (since 1838), no ...
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Sealer (disambiguation)
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Seals (disambiguation)
Seals may refer to:
* Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly:
** Earless seal, or "true seal"
** Fur seal
* Seal (emblem), a device to impress an emblem, used as a means of ...
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