Hull

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A hull is:

• Husk or hull, the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable
• Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
• in economics, the Hull-White model of interest rates

In mathematics:

• the affine hull in affine geometry
• 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

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, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
  • Hull, Walker County, Alabama
• 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 are several people named Hull:

• Hull, Blair, an American businessman and politician,
• Hull, Bobby, a former Canadian ice hockey player
• Hull, Brett, a former Canadian ice hockey player, and son of Bobby Hull
• Hull, Cordell, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
• Hull, Isaac, Early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
• Hull, John, a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
• Hull, Merlin, Congressman
• Hull, William, an American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812.

There is also:

• Hull House, Settlement house in Chicago, Illinois
• River Hull, for which Kingston upon Hull is named
• Hull City A.F.C., an English football (soccer) team
• Hull RLFC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the West of the City
• Hull Kingston Rovers, rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the East of the City
• The University of Hull, a university in England
• USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships