hulls
Because it is a word with a single syllable, hulls is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofhulls
- The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
- Any covering.
- To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Example: "She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts."
- The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
- (of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
Example: "The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon."
- To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
- To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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