Enclosing

3 definitions found

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

  enclosing \enclosing\ n.
     the act of surrounding something with something else, so that
     it is inside the surrounding object.
  
     Syn: inclosing, enclosure, envelopment, enveloping,
          inclosure.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "enclosing":
     ambient, assimilating, circling, circumambient, circumferential,
     circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, claustral,
     comprising, confining, containing, counting, covering, embracing,
     encircling, encompassing, enfolding, enveloping, environing,
     envisaging, including, inclusive, incorporating, limiting,
     neighboring, numbering, parietal, peripheral, roundabout, suburban,
     surrounding, wrapping