Seal

Seal or SEAL may refer to articles connected to a variety of meanings:

A marine mammal

• a pinniped, a large ocean mammal. There are three main groups:
  • Earless seals (or true seals)
  • Eared seals (or walking seals)
  • Walrus
• Seal hunting, both personal and commercial hunting of seals
• Seal brown is a rich dark brown color RGB(50, 20, 20) (from the colour of dyed Fur seal fur)

Fixing or closing to give a tight fit

• Seal (mechanical), a device to contain pressure.
• Diaphragm seal, a flexible membrane that seals and isolates an enclosure

Symbol of authentication

• Seal (device), a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority, or the impression left by a seal in sealing wax. (Origin: Latin sigillum = "small symbol", a diminutive of signum)
• Cylinder seal, cylinder engraved with a picture story, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a sheet of wet clay
• Great Seal of the United States used since 1782 to authenticate some documents issued by the United States government
• Great Seal of the Realm, a British institution for authorising the monarch's official documents a personal signature
• Great Seal of Scotland allows the monarch to authorise documents without signing
• Imperial Seal of Japan, called 菊の御紋 in Japanese, meaning "Noble Symbol of Chrysanthemum"
• Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state in the United Kingdom
• Knights Templar Seal used to validate documents approved by the order
• Seal of Solomon, a legendary magical signet ring said to have belonged to King Solomon
• LMLK seal, stamped on handles of large storage jars around Jerusalem about 700 BC
• Nintendo Seal of Quality is a gold seal used by Nintendo to show that a game is properly licensed to run on their game consoles

As a person's name

• Barry Seal (Adler Berriman Seal), pilot and drug smuggler turned DEA informant
• Brajendra Nath Seal (born 1864), Indian philosopher of the Brahmo Samaj, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University
• David Seal (born 1972), an Australian football (soccer) player
• Jaynie Seal (born 1973), an Australian television presenter
• Lou Seal (Luigi Francisco Seal, Jr.), the official mascot of the San Francisco Giants team in Major League Baseball
• Manuel Seal, a staff songwriter and producer at Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings
• Pu Tong Seal (1346 AD), legendary Burmese hero
• Seal (musician) (Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel), an Afro-European soul singer who has released three albums named "Seal":
  • Seal (1991 album)
  • Seal (1994 album)
  • Seal (2003 album)

As a place name

Some of these names referred originally to the marine mammal.

• Seal Bay Conservation Park, on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
• Seal Beach, a city in Orange County, California, United States of America
  • Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility in Seal Beach, California
• Seal Island, a small islet about 5.7 km off the northern beaches of False Bay near Cape Town in South Africa
• Seal Island (South Shetland Islands), a group of small islands and rocks lying 3 to 6 miles northwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands
• Machias Seal Island at 44°30′10″N 67°6′10″W / 44.50278°N 67.10278°W / 44.50278; -67.10278 under disputed sovereignty between the United States and Canada
• Seal Island Bridge, an arch truss bridge crossing the Great Bras d'Or channel in Victoria County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
• Seal Rock, a prominent rock offshore at the North end of Ocean Beach, San Francisco, United States
• Seal Rocks, a small settlement in New South Wales, Australia
• Seal, Kent, a village in Kent, England. (Origin: probably Anglo-Saxon sēale = "copse of sallow-trees")
• Seals, Georgia

As an acronym

• United States Navy SEALs, special forces of the United States Navy. (Origin: acronym from "SEa, Air, Land")
  • Advanced SEAL Delivery System, a midget submarine providing stealthy submerged transportation for special forces, primarily U.S. Navy SEALs
  • SEAL Recon Rifle, rifle developed to provide SEAL snipers with a portable, lightweight system with greater lethality
• Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language, a computer programming language
• SEAL (cipher), (Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm), a fast cryptographic cipher
• Safety Evidence Assurance Level, US government
• SEAL (Computer Language), the Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language
• SEAL (Sea Scout Leadership Training), a leadership training course for Sea Scouts youth in the Boy Scouts of America
• Software Engineering and Ada Lab, NASA

Ships

• HMS Seal (N37), a submarine of the Royal Navy
• USS Seal has been used as the name of two submarines of the United States Navy
• Red seal ships (朱印船), Japanese armed merchant sailing ships with a red-sealed patent (early 17th century)

In computers

• SEAL GUI, an open source Graphical User Interface for DOS

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