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Definition of Enveloping
1. Adjective. Surrounding and closing in on or hemming in. "The army's enveloping maneuver"
Definition of Enveloping
1. Verb. (present participle of envelop) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enveloping
1. envelop [v] - See also: envelop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enveloping
Literary usage of Enveloping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Solid Geometry by Charles Smith (1886)
"We can shew in a similar manner that OQ and OR are axes of the enveloping cone.
172. To find in its simplest form the equation of the enveloping cone of a ..."
2. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"The enveloping attack may be extended during the action by putting in the reserves.
The defender also will probably extend his line during the fight to meet ..."
3. Tactics: The Practical Art of Leading Troops in War ; Numerous Illustrations by Paul Stanley Bond, Edwin Hunter Crouch (1922)
"Separation of frontal and enveloping attacks. The enveloping attack should have
a sufficient separation from the frontal attack, and should aim well to the ..."
4. A Treatise on Solid Geometry by Percival Frost, Joseph Wolstenholme (1863)
"enveloping Cone. 325. To find the equation of the enveloping cone of a given ...
(x, y, z} + 2F,}\ If this be the enveloping cone, the point (a, /3, ..."
5. The Sun by Amédée Guillemin (1875)
"... kilometres (101 miles) thick, enveloping the Sun.—Heat of Space compared with
the Heat of the Sun. But let us return to the heat of the Sun. ..."
6. Principles and Practice of Butter-making: A Treatise on the Chemical and by George Lewis McKay (1908)
"Theory in Regard to Films enveloping Fat-globules.—The extreme minuteness of the
fat-globules in milk renders it almost impossible to determine by direct ..."
7. Tactics by William Balck (1915)
"(enveloping movements of the divisions of the Japanese ... In starting an enveloping
movement when at a considerable distance from the enemy, ..."
8. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"... and then form the discriminant with respect to \, the result will be the
differential equation of the cuspidal edge of any developable enveloping the ..."
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