Hülle
German
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German hulla.
Pronunciation
Noun
Hülle f (genitive Hülle, plural Hüllen)
- covering, wrapping
- case, sheath
- 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)
Declension
Synonyms
- (case, sheath): Hülse
Derived terms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Hülle” in Duden online