Seal

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Seal or SEAL may refer to:

• A seal, a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority, or the impression left by a seal in sealing wax, clay, etc. (Origin: Latin sigillum = "small symbol", a diminutive of signum)
• A mechanical seal, a device to contain pressure, or exclude contamination from an enclosure: derived from the previous in its role to fasten an official document shut.
• A seal, a large marine mammal (origin: Anglo-Saxon seolh).
• Seal, a British soul singer, who has released three eponymous albums: (Seal (1991 album), Seal (1994 album), and Seal (2003 album)).
• Seal, a village in Kent, England (origin: probably Anglo-Saxon sēale = "copse of sallow-trees").
• U.S. Navy SEALs, special forces of the United States Navy (origin: acronym from "SEa, Air, Land").
• SEAL (Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language), a computer programming language.
• SEAL, a cryptographic cipher.
• HMS Seal, a submarine of the Royal Navy.