Shell
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Shell may refer to:
- Animal shell, such as that of a mollusk or turtle, egg, or a plant's nut
- Electron shell, describing the structure of electron configuration in atoms
- Shell (computing), a type of computer user interface (for example a Unix or a DOS shell)
- Shell (mathematics), a ring-like algebraic structure, under two binary operations, including their respective units (in which the additive unit is also a multiplicative zero), but not necessarily satisfying the associativity of either operation, nor the distributive law of either operation over the other
- Shell (projectile), a projectile shot from a gun or artillery
- Shell sort, a sorting algorithm
- Racing shell, a rowed watercraft
- Royal Dutch Shell (and/or its subsidiary Shell Oil Company), the world's largest energy corporation
- Electron shells in atomic physics
- On shell and off shell, quantum field theory
- Art Shell, an American Football coach
- Big Shell, an offshore decontamination facility in the videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Shell Canada, a Canadian oil company
- Shell Thropp, a character from revisionist Gregory Maguire's books Wicked and Son of a Witch. His role is larger in the latter book.
- Shell (theater)
- Thin-shell structure, a method of building construction
- Shell Turbo Chargers, a defunct basketball team in the Philippines.
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