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envelopment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun envelopment has 1 sense
- envelopment(n = noun.act) enclosing, enclosure, inclosure - the act of enclosing something inside something else; Array is a kind of insertion, introduction, intromission
has particulars: boxing, packing, encasement, incasement
Derived form verb envelop1
CIDE DICTIONARY
envelopment, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.].
- The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. [1913 Webster]
- That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
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