Hull may refer to:

Structures

* The hull of an armored fighting vehicle, housing the

chassis A chassis (, ; plural ''chassis'' from French châssis ) is the load-bearing framework of a manufactured object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function. An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpart ...

Fuselage The fuselage (; from the French language, French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds Aircrew, crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an Aircraft engine, engine as wel ...

, of an aircraft *

Hull (botany) Husk (or hull) in botany is the outer shell or coating of a seed. In the United States, the term husk often refers to the leafy outer covering of an ear of maize (corn) as it grows on the plant. Literally, a husk or hull includes the protective ...

, the outer covering of seeds *

Hull (watercraft) A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a ...

, the body or frame of a sea-going craft *

Submarine hull A submarine hull has two major components, the ''superstructure'' and the ''pressure hull''. The external portion of a submarine’s hull—that part that does not resist sea pressure and is free-flooding—is known as the “superstructure” i ...

Mathematics

Affine hull In mathematics, the affine hull or affine span of a set ''S'' in Euclidean space R''n'' is the smallest affine set containing ''S'', or equivalently, the intersection of all affine sets containing ''S''. Here, an ''affine set'' may be defined as ...

, in affine geometry *

Conical hull Given a finite number of vectors x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n in a real vector space, a conical combination, conical sum, or weighted sum''Convex Analysis and Minimization Algorithms'' by Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty, Claude Lemaréchal, 1993, pp. 101, 102 ...

, in convex geometry *

Convex hull In geometry, the convex hull, convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it. The convex hull may be defined either as the intersection of all convex sets containing a given subset of a Euclidean space, ...

, in convex geometry **

Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull) Carathéodory's theorem is a theorem in convex geometry. It states that if a point x lies in the convex hull \mathrm(P) of a set P\subset \R^d, then x lies in some ''d''-dimensional simplex with vertices in P. Equivalently, x can be written as the ...

* Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis *

Injective hull In mathematics, particularly in algebra, the injective hull (or injective envelope) of a module is both the smallest injective module containing it and the largest essential extension of it. Injective hulls were first described in . Definition ...

, of a module *

Linear hull In mathematics, the linear span (also called the linear hull or just span) of a set S of elements of a vector space V is the smallest linear subspace of V that contains S. It is the set of all finite linear combinations of the elements of , and t ...

, another name for the linear span * Skolem hull, of mathematical logic

Places

United Kingdom

England

* Hull, the common name of

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a historic maritime city and unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Est ...

, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire **

Hull City A.F.C. Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. They play their home ...

, a football team **

Hull FC Hull Football Club, commonly referred to as Hull or Hull F.C., is a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Hull play their home games at the MKM Stadium and compete in Super League, the t ...

, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city **

Hull Kingston Rovers Hull Kingston Rovers (often abbreviated to Hull KR) are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Craven Park, Hull, Craven Park and compete in Super League, the top tier of B ...

(Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city **

Port of Hull The Port of Hull is a port at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Seaborne trade at the port can be traced to at least the 13th century, originally con ...

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

River Hull The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops o ...

, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire and city of Kingston upon Hull.

Canada

Hull, Quebec Hull is the central business district and oldest neighbourhood of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa. As part of Canada's ...

, a settlement opposite Ottawa, now part of the city of Gatineau **

Hull (provincial electoral district) Hull is provincial electoral riding located in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It includes the entire Hull, Quebec, Hull sector of the city of Gatineau, as well as some additional territory. It was created for the 1919 Quebec general elec ...

Hull (federal electoral district) Hull may refer to: Structures * The hull of an armored fighting vehicle, housing the chassis * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a sea-going craft * Submarine hull M ...

, now named Hull—Aylmer

United States

Hull, Florida Hull is an unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the nor ...

Hull, Georgia Hull is a city in Madison County, Georgia, United States. The population was 230 at the 2020 census, up from 198 in 2010. History The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Hull as a town in 1905. The community most likely was named after Rever ...

Hull, Illinois Hull is a village in Pike County, Illinois, United States. The population was 392 at the 2020 census, a decline from 461 in 2010. Geography Hull is located at (39.707845, -91.205132). According to the 2010 census, Hull has a total area of , of ...

Hull, Iowa Hull is a city in Sioux County, Iowa. The population was 2,384 at the time of the 2020 census. History The first settlers in the Hull area arrived in 1872. The city was incorporated on May 15, 1886. Hull was named for John A. T. Hull, a membe ...

Hull, Massachusetts Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor. Its population was 10,072 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Hull is the smallest town by land area in P ...

Hull, North Dakota Hull is an unincorporated community in Emmons County, in the U.S. state of North Dakota North Dakota ( ) is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota people, Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Ca ...

Hull, Texas Hull is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Liberty County, Texas, United States. It was named after W. F. Hull, a railroad official. The population was 669 at the 2010 census. Geography Hull is in eastern Liberty ...

Hull, West Virginia Hull is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The U ...

* Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin * Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin

Other places

Hull Island (disambiguation) Hull Island may refer to: * Orona in the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati, and once known as Hull Island * Îles Maria, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, within the Austral Islands, and also formerly known as Hull Island * Hull Isla ...

, several places

People

* List of people with surname Hull

Other uses

Hull classification symbol The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...

(hull code or hull number), a system to identify ships *

Hull House Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hul ...

, a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States * USS ''Hull'', any of four U.S. Navy ships * Hull note, the final U.S. proposal delivered to the Empire of Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbor