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Shelling
/ˈʃɛlɪŋ/
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
📖 Definitions of "Shelling"
verb
- 1
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- 2
To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- 3
To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- 4
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
noun
- 1
An artillery bombardment.
- 2
The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
- 3
Grain from which the husk has been removed.
- 4
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)
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