carapaça — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
carapaça is used for these senses in English:
- carapace A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
- shell The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- shell (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
carapace — full definition
- noun A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
- noun That which protects.
shell — full definition
- noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
- noun An explosive projectile fired from artillery.
- noun The outer frame or structure of something, especially when unfinished or empty inside.
- noun A computer program that provides a command-line interface for interacting with an operating system.
- verb To remove the outer covering from something, such as a nut or pea.