Seal

Seal commonly refers to:

• Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals.
• Seal (emblem), an emblem used as a means of authentication; both an impression in paper, wax, clay or other medium, and the device used
• Seal (mechanical), a device which helps prevent leakage, contain pressure, or exclude contamination where two systems join
• variant of English for decal or sticker

Seal may also refer to:

Computers

• Digital Signature And Electronic Authentication Law (SEAL), a bill that sought to update banking regulations in America
• SEAL (cipher), a cryptographic algorithm
• sealed, a keyword used in the programming languages Managed Extensions for C++ and C# to denote that this class cannot be inherited from

Entertainment

• Seal (musician), English singer and songwriter, or any of his three self-titled albums:
  • Seal (1991 album)
  • Seal (1994 album), sometimes referred to as Seal II
  • Seal (2003 album), sometimes referred to as Seal IV (following his third album Human Being)
• Seal Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Legal

• Record sealing
• Seal (contract law), a legal formality for contracts and other instruments
• Seal (East Asia), a stamp used in East Asia as a form of a signature

Military

• Fairey Seal, a 1930s British carrier-borne torpedo bomber aircraft
• HMS Seal, two Royal Navy ships and one submarine
• USS Seal, two American submarines

Special forces

• United States Navy SEALs, the principal special operations force of the U.S. Navy
• Royal Thai Navy SEALs, Thai Navy special operations force modelled on the U.S. unit
• 'Naval Special Operations Group also known as the Philippine Navy SEALs
• ROKN UDT/SEALs, a component of the Republic of Korea Navy Special Warfare Flotilla

People

• Barry Seal (1939–1986), drug smuggler and DEA informant
• Brajendra Nath Seal (1864–1938), Indian humanist philosopher and educator
• David Seal (born 1972), Australian soccer player
• Elizabeth Seal (born 1933), Italian actress
• Frances Thurber Seal, American Christian Science practitioner and teacher
• Jaynie Seal (born 1973), Australian television presenter
• Jimmy Seal (born 1950), English footballer
• Kevin Seal, MTV VJ in the late 1980s, the host of the pilot of Club MTV
• Manuel Seal, Jr., American songwriter-producer
• Mike Seal (born 1970), Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• Mike Seal (fighter) (born 1977), Mexican mixed martial artist
• Mutty Lall Seal (1792–1854), Bengali Indian businessman and philanthropist
• Paul Seal (born 1952), former American football tight end in the National Football League
• Seal (musician) (born 1963), British soul and R&B singer-songwriter
• Sudhangshu Seal (born 1945), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
• Tong Seal (born 1346), legendary Burmese ruler

Places

• Seal, Kent, a village and civil parish in England
• Seal, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Seal Beach, California, a city located in Orange County, USA
• Seal Harbour, Nova Scotia, a community in Guysborough County, Canada
• Seal Cay, а island within the Bahamas

Other

• Seal of the prophets, a title given to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad
• Seal script, ancient Chinese calligraphy
• Security seal, a device used to show whether a locking device has been opened
• "Seal", a generic term for the surface treatment of sealed roads (and by extension, a term used for the roads themselves)

See also

• SEAL (disambiguation)
• Seale (disambiguation)
• Sealing (disambiguation)
• Seals (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Seal"
• All pages with titles containing Seal