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German
Etymology
From Middle High German hülle, from Old High German hulla, derived from the verb hullen (whence modern hüllen), from Proto-West Germanic *hulljan, from Proto-Germanic *huljaną. Related with English hull, though not immediately cognate.
Pronunciation
Noun
Hülle f (genitive Hülle, plural Hüllen)
- covering, wrapping
- case, sheath
- Synonym: Hülse
- husk (useless, dried-up, worthless exterior)
- mantle (anything that covers or conceals something else)
- shell (any hollow structure; framework, or exterior structure)
- cladding (hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection)
- (aeronautics) envelope (bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship)
- (chemistry) shell (set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number)
- (mathematics) closure (smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property)
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Further reading
- “Hülle” in Duden online
- “Hülle” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache