hull
/hʌl/ noun C2- The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
- The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset. · The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.· holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull
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