In Mathematics
- Affine hull, in affine geometry
- Convex hull, in geometry
- Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull)
- Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis
- Injective hull of a module
- Linear hull, another name for the linear span
- Skolem hull of mathematical logic
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