hull

coque, fuselage

Corps principal d’un navire, d’un bateau ou d’un avion.

En anglais simple : The main body of a ship, boat, or aircraft.

• The boat has a wooden hull.
• Water entered through a hole in the hull.
• Workers painted the ship's hull blue.

Synonymes : fuselage

Expressions courantes : ship hull, boat hull, steel hull, damaged hull

coque, enveloppe

Partie extérieure qui recouvre un fruit, un légume ou une graine.

En anglais simple : The outer covering of a fruit, vegetable, or seed.

• Remove the hull before eating the seed.
• Rice hulls covered the floor.
• The hard hull protects the nut inside.

Synonymes : husk, shell

Expressions courantes : rice hull, seed hull, outer hull

enveloppe

Plus petit ensemble de points contenant tous les points donnés et respectant une règle mathématique précise.

En anglais simple : The smallest group of points that includes all given points and follows a particular mathematical rule.

• The program draws a convex hull.
• This hull contains every point in the set.
• We computed the hull of the polygon's vertices.

Synonymes : span

Expressions courantes : convex hull, affine hull, compute the hull

décortiquer, équeuter

Retirer l’enveloppe extérieure d’un fruit ou d’une graine, ou enlever la queue d’un fruit.

En anglais simple : To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

• Hull the strawberries before serving them.
• She hulled the nuts by hand.
• This machine hulls rice quickly.

Synonymes : shell, husk

Expressions courantes : hull strawberries, hull rice, hull the seeds