shelling

• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

shelling

1. present participle of shell

shelling (countable and uncountable, plural shellings)

1. An artillery bombardment.
2. The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
3. (uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed.
4. (topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
5. Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

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