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Shell may refer to
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Nature 
- Seashell, a hard outer layer of a marine animal, found on beaches
- Exoskeleton, an external covering of some animals
- Eggshell
[edit] Business
- Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil and gas company
- Shell Oil Company, the U.S.-based subsidiary
- Shell Canada
- Shell Nigeria
- Shell corporation, a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions
[edit] Entertainment
- Shell (theater), a curved surface for reflecting sound
- The Shells, a musical group
- "Shells" (Angel), a TV episode
[edit] Places
- Shell, Ecuador
- Shell, California, United States
- Shell, Wyoming, United States
[edit] People
- Art Shell (born 1946), American football player and coach
- Donald Shell (born 1924), American computer scientist
- Karl Shell (born 1938), American economist
[edit] Weaponry
- Shell (projectile), an explosive device fired from artillery
- Shotgun shell, a type of shotgun ammunition
[edit] Other uses
- Shell (computing), a type of user interface
- Shell (machinery), each half of a two-piece plain bearing
- Electron shell
- Racing shell, a watercraft
- Shell account, a user account on a remote server
- Shell element, a component of the thin-shell structure construction method
- A ring-like algebraic structure
[edit] See also
- Shell sort, a sorting algorithm
- On shell and off shell, a concept in quantum field theory
- All pages beginning with "Shell"
- All pages with titles containing "Shell"