Seals may refer to:
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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:
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Earless seal, or "true seal"
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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 ...
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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)
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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
In military:
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United States Navy SEALs
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the United States Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main func ...
, the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force
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Royal Thai Navy SEALs, part of the Royal Thai Navy
In sport:
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Florida Seals, a minor league ice hockey team from 2002 and 2007
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San Diego Seals, a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League, founded in 2017
* A former NHL hockey team who played under various "Seals" monikers from 1961 to 1976, including:
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San Francisco Seals, as a minor league hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1961 until 1967
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California Golden Seals
The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey club that competed in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967–68 NHL season, 1967 to 1975–76 NHL season, 1976. Based in Oakland, California, they played their home games at the Oa ...
, as an NHL ice hockey team from 1967 to 1978
** They additionally played as the ''California Seals'', the ''Oakland Seals'', and the ''Bay Area Seals.''
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San Francisco Seals (baseball)
The San Francisco Seals were a Minor League Baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. The organization was named for the abundant California sea ...
, a minor league baseball team in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957
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San Francisco Seals (soccer), an American soccer team in the USL Premier Development League from 1992 until 2008
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Victoria Seals, a professional baseball team based in Victoria, British Columbia from 2008 until 2010
Places:
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Seals, Georgia, United States
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Seal's Rock, Lundy, Devonshire, England
Other:
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Seals (surname)
* "SEALS", the
South East Academic Libraries System
* "Seals", an episode of the television series ''
Teletubbies
''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on t ...
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Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)
See also
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Seal (disambiguation)
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Seale (disambiguation)
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Seven seals (disambiguation)
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Sealing (disambiguation)
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Seals and Crofts, American music duo
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Seals of the U.S. states, their insignia
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SEAL Team (TV series)
''SEAL Team'' is an American military drama television series created by Benjamin Cavell and produced by CBS Studios. The series stars David Boreanaz, Max Thieriot, Jessica Paré, Neil Brown Jr., A. J. Buckley, and Toni Trucks and follows an el ...
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