Seals may refer to: *

Pinniped Pinnipeds (pronounced ), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walru ...

, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly: **

Earless seal The earless seals, phocids or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from th ...

, or "true seal" **

Fur seal Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family '' Otariidae''. They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears (pinnae), relatively lon ...

Seal (emblem) A seal is a device for making an impression in Sealing wax, wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made. The original purpose was to authenticate a document, or to prevent interf ...

, a device to impress an emblem, used as a means of authentication, on paper, wax, clay or another medium (the impression is also called a seal) *

Seal (mechanical) A mechanical seal is a device that helps join systems and mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a pumping system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination. The effectiveness of a seal is dependent on adhesion in the case of ...

, a device which helps prevent leakage, contain pressure, or exclude contamination where two systems join In military: *

United States Navy SEALs The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting sma ...

, the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force *

Royal Thai Navy SEALs The Naval Special Warfare Command ( th, หน่วยบัญชาการสงครามพิเศษทางเรือ), commonly known as the Royal Thai Navy SEALs (an acronym for SEa–Air–Land), is the special operations force ...

, part of the Royal Thai Navy In sport: *

Florida Seals The Florida Seals were a minor league ice hockey franchise, a member of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL). Originally based in Orlando, Florida, as the Orlando Seals, they later moved to Kissimmee, Florida, a suburb thirty miles sout ...

, a minor league ice hockey team from 2002 and 2007 *

California Golden Seals The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey club that competed in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1976. Based in Oakland, California, they played their home games at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena. The S ...

, originally ''California Seals'', a former NHL ice hockey team *

San Francisco Seals (baseball) The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. The organization was named for the abundant California se ...

, a minor league baseball team in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 * San Francisco Seals (ice hockey), a minor league hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1961 until 1967 * San Francisco Seals (soccer), an American soccer team in the USL Premier Development League from 1992 until 2008 * Victoria Seals, a professional baseball team based in Victoria, British Columbia from 2008 until 2010 *San Diego Seals, a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League Places: * Seals, Georgia, United States * Seal's Rock, Lundy, Devonshire, England Other: * Seals (surname) * "SEALS", the South East Academic Libraries System * "Seals", an episode of the television series ''Teletubbies'' * Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)

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