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Hülle

Pronunciation: [ˈhʏlə]

“Hülle” is a German word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. covering, wrapping
  2. synonym of Kleidung
  3. case, sheath
  4. husk (useless, dried-up, worthless exterior)
  5. mantle (anything that covers or conceals something else)
  6. shell (any hollow structure; framework, or exterior structure)
  7. cladding (hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection)
  8. envelope (bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship)
  9. shell (set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number)
  10. closure (smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property)

Etymology

From Middle High German hülle, from Old High German hulla, derived from the verb hullen (whence modern hüllen), from Proto-West Germanic *hulljan, from Proto-Germanic *huljaną. Related with English hull, though not immediately cognate.

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