Seal

**Seal** or **SEAL** may refer to articles connected to a variety of meanings:

## A marine mammal
*a **pinniped**, a large ocean mammal. There are three main groups:
**Earless seals (or true seals)
**Eared seals (or walking seals)
**Walrus
*Seal hunting, both personal and commercial hunting of seals
*Seal brown is a rich dark brown color *RGB(50, 20, 20)* (from the colour of dyed Fur seal fur)

## Fixing or closing to give a tight fit
*Seal (mechanical), a device to contain pressure.
*Diaphragm seal, a flexible membrane that seals and isolates an enclosure

## Symbol of authentication
*Seal (device), a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority, or the impression left by a seal in sealing wax. (Origin: Latin *sigillum* = "small symbol", a diminutive of *signum*)
*Cylinder seal, cylinder engraved with a *picture story*, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a sheet of wet clay
*Great Seal of the United States used since 1782 to authenticate some documents issued by the United States government
*Great Seal of the Realm, a British institution for authorising the monarch's official documents a personal signature
*Great Seal of Scotland allows the monarch to authorise documents without signing
*Imperial Seal of Japan, called 菊の御紋 in Japanese, meaning "Noble Symbol of Chrysanthemum"
*Lord Privy Seal or *Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal* is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state in the United Kingdom
*Knights Templar Seal used to validate documents approved by the order
*Seal of Solomon, a legendary magical signet ring said to have belonged to King Solomon
*LMLK seal, stamped on handles of large storage jars around Jerusalem about 700 BC
*Nintendo Seal of Quality is a gold seal used by Nintendo to show that a game is properly licensed to run on their game consoles

## As a person's name
*Barry Seal (Adler Berriman Seal), pilot and drug smuggler turned DEA informant
* Brajendra Nath Seal (born 1864), Indian philosopher of the Brahmo Samaj, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University
*David Seal (born 1972), an Australian football (soccer) player
*Jaynie Seal (born 1973), an Australian television presenter
*Lou Seal (Luigi Francisco Seal, Jr.), the official mascot of the San Francisco Giants team in Major League Baseball
*Manuel Seal, a staff songwriter and producer at Jermaine Dupri's *So So Def Recordings*
*Pu Tong Seal (1346 AD), legendary Burmese hero
* Seal (musician) (Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel), an Afro-European soul singer who has released three albums named "Seal":
***Seal* (1991 album)
***Seal* (1994 album)
***Seal* (2003 album)

## As a place name
Some of these names referred originally to the marine mammal.
* Seal Bay Conservation Park, on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
* Seal Beach, a city in Orange County, California, United States of America
** Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, a United States Navy weapons and munitions loading, storage and maintenance facility in Seal Beach, California
* Seal Island, a small islet about 5.7&nbsp;km off the northern beaches of False Bay near Cape Town in South Africa
* Seal Island (South Shetland Islands), a group of small islands and rocks lying 3 to 6 miles northwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands
* Machias Seal Island at  under disputed sovereignty between the United States and Canada
* Seal Island Bridge, an arch truss bridge crossing the Great Bras d'Or channel in Victoria County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
* Seal Rock, a prominent rock offshore at the North end of Ocean Beach, San Francisco, United States
* Seal Rocks, a small settlement in New South Wales, Australia
* Seal, Kent, a village in Kent, England. (Origin: probably Anglo-Saxon *sēale* = "copse of sallow-trees")
* Seals, Georgia

## As an acronym
* United States Navy SEALs, special forces of the United States Navy. (Origin: acronym from "SEa, Air, Land")
**Advanced SEAL Delivery System, a midget submarine providing stealthy submerged transportation for special forces, primarily U.S. Navy SEALs
**SEAL Recon Rifle, rifle developed to provide SEAL snipers with a portable, lightweight system with greater lethality
* Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language, a computer programming language
* SEAL (cipher), (Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm), a fast cryptographic cipher
* Safety Evidence Assurance Level, US government
* SEAL (Computer Language), the Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language
* SEAL (Sea Scout Leadership Training), a leadership training course for Sea Scouts youth in the Boy Scouts of America
* Software Engineering and Ada Lab, NASA

## Ships
* HMS *Seal* (N37), a submarine of the Royal Navy
* USS *Seal* has been used as the name of two submarines of the United States Navy
* Red seal ships (朱印船), Japanese armed merchant sailing ships with a red-sealed patent (early 17th century)

## In computers
*SEAL GUI, an open source Graphical User Interface for DOS