'Envelopment' definitions:
Definition of 'envelopment'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Envelopment'
From: GCIDE
- Envelopment \En*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.]
- 1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'envelopment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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