Encasement

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Encasement \En*case"ment\, n. [Cf. {Casement}.]
     1. The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
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     2. (Biol.) An old theory of generation similar to
        embo[^i]tement. See {Ovulist}.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  encasement
       n : the act of enclosing something in a case [syn: {incasement}]