Shell

Shell may refer to:

Nature

• Seashell, a hard outer layer of a marine animal, found on beaches
• Exoskeleton, an external covering of some animals
  • Mollusc shell
  • Gastropod shell
  • Turtle shell
• Eggshell

Business

• Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil and gas company
  • Shell Oil Company, the U.S.-based subsidiary
  • Shell Canada
  • Shell Nigeria
• Shell corporation, a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions

Entertainment

• Shell (theater), a curved surface for reflecting sound
• The Shells, a musical group
• "Shells" (Angel), a TV episode

Places

• Shell, Ecuador
• Shell, California, United States
• Shell, Wyoming, United States

People

• Art Shell (born 1946), American football player and coach
• Donald Shell (born 1924), American computer scientist
• Karl Shell (born 1938), American economist

Other uses

• Shell (computing), a type of user interface
• Shell (machinery), each half of a two-piece plain bearing
• Shell (projectile), an explosive device
• Electron shell
• Racing shell, a watercraft
• Shell account, a user account on a remote server
• Shotgun shell, a type of ammunition
• Shell element, a component of the thin-shell structure construction method
• A ring-like algebraic structure

See also

• Shell sort, a sorting algorithm
• On shell and off shell, a concept in quantum field theory
• All pages beginning with "Shell"
• All pages with titles containing "Shell"

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