Hull
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A hull is:
- the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable, may also be called a husk
- the body or frame of a ship; see hull (watercraft)
- in mathematics:
- the convex hull in geometry
- Carathéodory's theorem for convex hulls
- the holomorphically convex hull in complex analysis
- the injective hull of a module
- the Skolem hull of mathematical logic
- in economics, the Hull-White model of interest rates
Several places in the world are called Hull:
- Kingston upon Hull - a city in England usually referred to as simply Hull.
- Hull, Québec - a former city in Québec, Canada (now part of the city of Gatineau).
In the United States of America :
- Hull, Alabama - the name of two places in the United States of America.
- Hull, Florida - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, Georgia - a city in the United States of America.
- Hull, Illinois - a village in the United States of America.
- Hull, Iowa - a city in the United States of America.
- Hull, Massachusetts - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, Minnesota - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, North Dakota - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, Ohio - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, Texas - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, West Virginia - a place in the United States of America.
- Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin
- Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin
There is also:
- Hull House, a settelment house in Chicago, Illinois.
- River Hull, for which Kingston upon Hull is named.
- Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.
- Hull City A.F.C. an English football (soccer) team
- Brett Hull
- Hull F.C. One of the world's oldest football clubs and most successful rugby club