envelopment

Pronunciation:		en'velupmunt
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] the act of enclosing something inside something else

	Synonyms:	enclosing, enclosure, inclosure

	See Also:	boxing, encasement, incasement, insertion, introduction, intromission, packing

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Envel"opment\, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.] 1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.

Thesaurus Terms

	Related Terms:	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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