Definition of Envelopments

1. Noun. (plural of envelopment) ¹

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Definition of Envelopments

1. envelopment [n] - See also: envelopment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Envelopments

enveigled
enveigles
enveigling
enveil
envelop
envelope
envelope conformation
envelope flap
enveloped
enveloper
envelopers
envelopes
enveloping
enveloping(a)
envelopment
envelopments (current term)
envelops
envenime
envenom
envenomate
envenomated
envenomates
envenomating
envenomation
envenomations
envenomed
envenoming
envenomization
envenomizations
envenoms

Literary usage of Envelopments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The shapes of all polygonal and all cylindrical and conical forms are obtained by simple development— that is, the envelopments of these bodies are marked ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"As you have remarked, envelopments have, for the most part, ... Secondary envelopments, however, exist, and such may be called pseudomorphs or crystalloids, ..."

3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"... where all decays and dies, we have the illustration of an immortal principle not only surviving the death of its natural envelopments ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"As you have remarked, envelopments have, for the most part, ... Secondary envelopments, however, exist, and such may be called pseudomorphs or crystalloids, ..."

5. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"Turning movements like envelopments, though to an even greater extent, ... envelopments grade into turning movements and no sharp line can be drawn between ..."

6. Letters on Applied Tactics: Problems Dealing with the Operations of by Otto F. W. T. Griepenkerl (1914)
"Let me remind you, in regard to the expression "envelop," that "envelopments" take place on the battlefield itself, consequently under the eyes of, ..."

7. The Hand Book of Hydropathy: For Professional and Domestic Use: with an by Josef Weiss (1849)
"Where the fever presents itself during the paroxysm with violence, we may venture on one or two envelopments in wet sheets, to moderate the fever slightly: ..."

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