shelling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

Verb

shelling

1. present participle and gerund of shell

Noun

shelling (countable and uncountable, plural shellings)

1. An artillery bombardment.
2. The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
3. (uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
4. (topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
5. Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

Derived terms

• sea shelling

Translations

artillery bombardment

• Arabic: قَصْف (qaṣf)
• Belarusian: абстрэ́л m (abstrél)
• Catalan: bombardeig (ca) m, bombardament (ca) m
• Czech: ostřelování n
• Finnish: tykistötuli
• French: bombardement (fr) m
• German: Bombardierung (de) f
• Hungarian: bombázás (hu)
• Italian: bombardamento (it) m
• Russian: обстре́л (ru) m (obstrél)
• Spanish: bombardeo (es) m
• Ukrainian: о́бстріл m (óbstril)

removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.

• Finnish: kuoriminen (fi)

grain from which the husk has been removed

topology: way of ordering of the facets of a boundary complex

shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating

• Finnish: halkeilu (fi)

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