Veil (disambiguation)
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A veil most commonly refers to an article of clothing, used to obscure or enhance the view of the wearer's face. Most commonly used as an article of woman's clothing, particularly used in ceremonial dress. See veil.
Certain structures in fungi are referred to as a veil.
A veil may also be a cloth hanging used in architecture, especially in a temple to separate a public space from a space reserved for the priesthood, or within a mosque to separate worshipers of differing sex.
Veil is also a name given to the caul, a membrane sometimes found on the face of a newborn child.
VEIL is an acronym for Video Encoded Invisible Light, a technology for encoding low-bandwidth digital data bitstream in video signal for communication, also used as a Digital Rights Management tool.
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