Envelopment

3 definitions found

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

  Envelopment \En*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.]
     1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or
        covering on all sides.
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     2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  envelopment
       n : the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: {enclosure},
            {enclosing}, {inclosure}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "envelopment":
     bandage, bandaging, beleaguerment, besetment, besiegement, binder,
     binding, blanketing, blockade, blockading, blocking, blotting out,
     cementwork, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency,
     circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition,
     circumscription, cloaking, clouding, coating, confinement,
     containment, cordoning, coverage, covering, curtaining,
     dust jacket, eclipse, eclipsing, embracement, encincture,
     encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, envelope,
     environment, enwrapment, enwrapping, gift wrapping, girding,
     girdling, hiding, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration,
     inclusion, incrustation, investment, involvement, jacket,
     laying on, mantling, masking, obduction, obscuring, occultation,
     overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, pincer movement, plasterwork,
     quarantine, screening, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, siege,
     stuccowork, superimposition, superposition, surrounding,
     upholstering, upholstery, veiling, vertical envelopment, wrap,
     wrapper, wrapping