Seal may refer to any of the following:

Common uses

Pinniped Pinnipeds (pronounced ), commonly known as seals, are a widely range (biology), distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant taxon, extant families Odobenidae (whose onl ...

, 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 ...

, also called "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 Earless seal, true seals, and share with them external ears (Pinna (anatomy ...

Eared seal An eared seal, otariid, or otary is any member of the marine mammal family Otariidae, one of three groupings of pinnipeds. They comprise 15 extant species in seven genera (another species became extinct in the 1950s) and are commonly known eithe ...

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

, 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 seal is a device or material that helps join systems, mechanisms or other materials together by preventing leak, leakage (e.g. in a wikt:pumping, pumping system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination. The effectiveness of a seal is d ...

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

Hermetic seal A hermetic seal is any type of sealing that makes a given object airtight (preventing the passage of air, oxygen, or other gases). The term originally applied to airtight glass containers but, as technology advanced, it applied to a larger ca ...

, an airtight mechanical seal *

Security seal Security seals are tamper-evident mechanisms that seal valuable material in a room, cabinet, vehicle, or other storage facility. One common use is to seal cargo in transit shipping containers in a way that provides tamper evidence and some lev ...

s such as labels, tapes, bands, or ties affixed onto a container in order to prevent and detect tampering

Arts, entertainment and media

* ''Seal'' (1991 album), by Seal * ''Seal'' (1994 album), sometimes referred to as ''Seal II'', by Seal * ''

Seal IV ''Seal IV'' is the fourth studio album by Seal. It follows the aborted sessions for ''Togetherland'', which was scrapped because Seal thought it was not up to the standard of his previous work. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number ...

'', a 2003 album by Seal * ''Seal Online'', a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Law

* Seal (contract law), a legal formality for contracts and other instruments * Seal (East Asia), a stamp used in East Asia as a form of a signature * Record sealing

Military

* ''Fairey Seal'', a 1930s British carrier-borne torpedo bomber aircraft * HMS Seal, HMS ''Seal'', two Royal Navy ships and one submarine * USS Seal, USS ''Seal'', two American submarines * Supermarine Seal II, the 1921 British flying boat

Special forces

*United States Navy SEALs, the principal special operations force of the U.S. Navy *Thai Navy Seals, Thai Navy special operations force modelled on the U.S. Navy SEALs *Naval Special Operations Command, also known as the Philippine Navy SEALs *ROKN UDT/SEALs, a component of the Republic of Korea Navy Special Warfare Flotilla

People

* Seal (musician) (born 1963), English singer and songwriter * Seal (surname): ** Aditya Seal (born 1988), Indian actor ** Barbara Seal, Canadian former judge from Montreal, Quebec ** Barry Seal (1939–1986), American drug smuggler and DEA informant ** Brajendra Nath Seal (1864–1938), Indian humanist philosopher and educator ** David Seal (born 1972), Australian soccer player ** Elizabeth Seal (born 1933), Italian actress ** Frances Thurber Seal, American Christian Science practitioner and teacher ** Jaynie Seal (born 1973), Australian television presenter ** Jimmy Seal (born 1950), English footballer ** Kevin Seal, American television presenter and actor ** Manuel Seal (born 1960), American songwriter-producer ** Michael Seal (born 1970), British orchestral conductor and classical violinist ** Mike Seal (fighter) (born 1977), Mexican mixed martial artist ** Mutty Lall Seal (1792–1854), Indian Bengali businessman and philanthropist ** Paul Seal (born 1952), American football tight end ** Sudhangshu Seal (born 1945), Indian politician

Places

* Seal, Kent, a village and civil parish in England * Seal, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Seal Beach, California, a city located in Orange County, USA * Seal Cay, а island within the Bahamas * Seal Harbour, Nova Scotia, a community in Guysborough County, Canada * Seal Lake, a lake in Greenland

Other uses

* "Seal", a generic term for the surface treatment of sealed roads (and by extension, a term used for the roads themselves) * Seal brown * Seal of the prophets, a title given to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad * Seal script, ancient Chinese calligraphy * BYD Seal, an electric sedan * Select Entry Accelerated Learning, a program used in Victoria, Australia, in some secondary schools