SEAL

'Seal' or 'SEAL' may refer to things with a variety of meanings:

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Marine mammal

Closing to give a tight fit

Symbol of authentication

Persons

Places

Ships

Computing

Acronyms

Marine mammal

★ Pinniped, marine mammals belonging to the former biological suborder Pinnipedia

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★ Earless seal (or true seals), members of the family Phocidae

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★ Leopard seal, also members of the family Phocidae

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★ Eared seal (or walking seals), members of the family Otariidae, which includes:

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★ Fur seal, subfamily Arctocephalinae.

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★ Sea Lion, subfamily Otariinae

★ Seal hunting, both personal and commercial hunting of seals

★ Seal brown is a rich dark brown color ''RGB(50, 20, 20)'' (from the colour of dyed Fur seal fur)

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★ Seal (mechanical), a device to contain pressure, or exclude contamination from an enclosure. (Derived from "seal (device)" when used to fasten a document shut.)

★ Bridgman seal, named after Percy Williams Bridgman, seals a high pressure volume by the use of an unsupported area to create a higher pressure between two pistons

★ Rotating face mechanical seal, a type of seal used in rotating equipment such as pumps and compressors

★ Diaphragm seal, a flexible membrane that seals and isolates an enclosure

★ Bodok seal, a specialised washer that ensures an air-tight seal between the regulator of an anaesthetic machine and a gas cylinder

Symbol of authentication

★ Seal (device), a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority, or the impression left by a seal in sealing wax. (Origin: Latin ''sigillum'' = "small symbol", a diminutive of ''signum'')

★ Seal (contract law), a legal formality for contracts and other instruments, based on such a device; i.e to "seal the deal"

★ Cylinder seal, an engraved cylinder used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a sheet of wet clay

★ Seal of the President

★ Great Seal of the United States used since 1782 to authenticate some documents issued by the United States government

★ Seal of the President of Nigeria - Nigerian presidential seal

★ Great Seal of the Realm, a British institution for authorising the monarch's official documents a personal signature

★ Great Seal of Scotland allows the monarch to authorise documents without signing

★ Imperial Seal of Japan, called 菊の御紋 in Japanese, meaning "Noble Symbol of Chrysanthemum"

★ Lord Privy Seal or ''Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal'' is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state in the United Kingdom

★ Knights Templar Seal used to validate documents approved by the order

★ Seal of Solomon, a legendary magical signet ring said to have belonged to King Solomon

★ LMLK seal, stamped on handles of large storage jars around Jerusalem about 700 BC

★ Nintendo Seal of Quality is a gold seal used by Nintendo to show that a game is properly licensed to run on its game consoles

Persons

★ Seal (musician) (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel), a British singer and songwriter

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★ ''Seal'', his 1991 debut album

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★ ''Seal'', also called ''Seal II'', his second album

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★ ''Seal'', also called ''Seal IV'', his fourth album

★ Barry Seal (Adler Berriman Seal), pilot and drug smuggler turned DEA informant

★ Brajendra Nath Seal (born 1864), Indian philosopher of the Brahmo Samaj, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University

★ David Seal (born 1972), an Australian football (soccer) player

★ Jaynie Seal (born 1973), an Australian television presenter

★ Lou Seal (Luigi Francisco Seal, Jr.), the official mascot of the San Francisco Giants team in Major League Baseball

★ Manuel Seal, a staff songwriter and producer at Jermaine Dupri's ''So So Def Recordings''

★ Pu Tong Seal (1346 AD), legendary Burmese hero

Places

Some of these names referred originally to the marine mammal.

★ Seal Bay Conservation Park, on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

★ Seal Beach, a city in Orange County, California, United States of America

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★ Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility in Seal Beach, California

★ Seal Island, a small islet about 5.7 km off the northern beaches of False Bay near Cape Town in South Africa

★ Seal Island (South Shetland Islands), a group of small islands and rocks lying 3 to 6 miles northwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands

★ Machias Seal Island at under disputed sovereignty between the United States and Canada

★ Seal Island Bridge, an arch truss bridge crossing the Great Bras d'Or channel in Victoria County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

★ Seal Rock, a prominent rock offshore at the North end of Ocean Beach, San Francisco, United States

★ Seal Rocks, a small settlement in New South Wales, Australia

★ Seal, Kent, a village in Kent, England. (Origin: probably Anglo-Saxon ''sēale'' = "copse of sallow-trees")

★ Seals, Georgia

Ships

★ HMS ''Seal'' (N37), a submarine of the Royal Navy

★ USS Seal has been used as the name of two submarines of the United States Navy

★ Red seal ships (朱印船), Japanese armed merchant sailing ships with a red-sealed patent (early 17th century)

Computing

★ SEAL GUI, an open source Graphical User Interface for DOS

Acronyms

★ Digital Signature And Electronic Authentication Law of 1998

★ United States Navy SEALs, special forces of the US Navy (acronym from "SEa, Air, Land")

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★ Advanced SEAL Delivery System, a midget submarine providing stealthy submerged transportation for special forces, primarily US Navy SEALs

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★ SEAL Recon Rifle, rifle developed to provide SEAL snipers with a portable, more lethal system

★ Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language (or SEAL Computer Language), a computer programming language

★ SEAL (cipher) (Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm), a fast cryptographic cipher

★ Safety Evidence Assurance Level, US government

★ SEAL (Sea Scout Advanced Leadership) Training, a course for Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)

★ Software Engineering and Ada Lab, NASA