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Seal

Seal or SEAL can refer to:

Seal, a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority. Origin: Latin `sigillum' = "small symbol".
Seal: a deposit of (usually) sealing wax on a document: fastening it closed and/or with a seal stamp impression on it.
Seal, a mechanical device to contain pressure, or exclude contamination from an enclosure. This meaning derives from the previous meaning.
Seal, a type of pinniped, a large marine fish-eating mammal. Origin: Anglo-Saxon 'seolh'.
Seal, a British soul vocalist, who has released three eponymous albums:
- Seal (1991 album)
- Seal (1994 album)
- Seal (2003 album)
Seal, a village in Kent in England.
U.S. Navy SEALs, a SEa, Air, Land team of the United States Navy
SEAL, (Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language), a computer language
SEAL, a cryptographic cipher

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