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Definition of Envelopment
1. Noun. The act of enclosing something inside something else.
Generic synonyms: Insertion, Introduction, Intromission
Specialized synonyms: Boxing, Packing, Encasement, Incasement
Derivative terms: Enclose, Enclose, Enclose, Envelop, Inclose
Definition of Envelopment
1. n. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
Definition of Envelopment
1. Noun. The act of enveloping ¹
2. Noun. (military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement ¹
3. Noun. (fencing) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Envelopment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Envelopment
Literary usage of Envelopment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures: A Handbook for by Henry Rankin Poore (1903)
"The reason for it is to be found in a false value which has deprived it of
rotundity of envelopment. The solid object which resists the attempt to put one's ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"envelopment OF THE UVULA IN THE PALATINE FOLDS. ... 20,1891, the compiler reports
an instance of total envelopment of the uvula in a membrane extending from ..."
3. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1875)
"The above characteristic examples of symmetrical and asymmetrical envelopment
are cited from a great number of others which might have been mentioned. ..."
4. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1881)
"... of rebel condition—News from Sheridan—Grant's prescience of Lee's movements—Gradual
envelopment of both Lee and Johnston's commands—Dissatisfaction with ..."
5. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1882)
"... of rebel condition—News from Sheridan—Grant's prescience of Lee's movements—Gradual
envelopment of both Lee and Johnston's commands—Dissatisfaction with ..."
6. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Complete envelopment in Mist, second Thunder-storm.—Arrival at the Hotel called
the Mountain House.—Description of the Hotel, American Cookery. ..."
7. The Conduct of War: A Short Treatise on Its Most Important Branches and by Colmar Goltz, George Francis Leverson (1908)
"The Strategical envelopment. By the above term we understand the attack upon a
theatre of war, occupied by the enemy simultaneously in the front and on one ..."
8. An Elementary Course in Descriptive Geometry by Solomon Woolf (1888)
"TANGENT SURFACES AND envelopment. 333. The tangency between surfaces may be
divided into two general classes : (1) Convex tangency, in which the convex ..."
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